Bulldog Trucking, Inc. v. Adams

Gregory, Justice.

Appellant Bulldog Trucking, Inc. sued appellee Adams in Frank*383lin Superior Court, alleging that Adams breached a covenant not to compete contained in an agreement in which Adams sold his controlling stock in Bulldog. The covenant provided that Adams was not to go into direct competition with Bulldog for one year after the date of Adams’s termination with Bulldog. Termination was defined in the covenant as “no employment or no consultation for a period of One Hundred Twenty (120) days.”

After the trial court entered a temporary restraining order against Adams, Adams…