Ramsey v. Mutual Supply Company

This is a suit by a former employer to enjoin a former employee from violating a restrictive covenant in a contract of employment.

There is little or no dispute about the salient facts of the case, which are as follows:

Mutual Supply Company, hereinafter referred to as “Mutual,” is a wholesale distributor of veterinary products, primarily drugs, and it employs two salesmen to call upon its customers, all of which customers are veterinarians.

Mutual’s sales territory consists generally of all of Kentucky and Tennessee, northern Alabama and northern Mississippi. In October, 1964, Mutual employed…