Federated Mutual Implement & Hardware Insurance v. Anderson

This is an action seeking to enforce the restrictive provisions of an alleged employment contract and for damages for its breach. The material aver-ments of the complainant’s bill were that it employed the defendant as a full-time, salaried insurance agent on September 1, 1952, and that the defendant’s employment continued without interruption until it was terminated by complainant on December 5, 1959. The last contract of employment was executed on January 1, 1957 and provided, in part, as follows:

“5. Salesman agrees that he will not, within a period of two years following the date of the…