Progress Laundry Company v. Hamilton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The appellee and defendant below, Dave Hamilton, on September 1, 1918, accepted employment with the appellant and plaintiff below, Progress Laundry Company, engaged in the laundry business in the city of Louisville, to take up, deliver and collect for laundering upon and over a prescribed route in the city, known as route number 4. He followed that employment faithfully and diligently for more than five years, when he voluntarily retired and accepted employment with a rival competitor of plaintiff and was proposing to solicit the trade of his…