Chenault v. Otis Engineering Corporation

OPINION

GREEN, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by appellee Otis Engineering Company for temporary and permanent injunctive relief, whereby it sought to have the court enforce a restrictive covenant that appellant Louis W. Chenault would not compete with appellee within a specified area for a specified period of time. Upon preliminary hearing, the court granted a temporary injunction, and after trial before the court and a jury entered judgment after verdict enjoining appellant from conducting business in competition with appellee in the Victoria area, defining the limits of such area all…