R Homes Corp. v. Herr

LANSING, Judge.

This is an appeal from a district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendant in an action by the defendant’s former employer alleging that he breached his fiduciary duty of loyalty to the employer by soliciting customers and recruiting fellow employees for a new competing company. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND

Plaintiff R Homes Corporation operated a manufacturing plant for the construction of modular homes and other structures. R Homes hired defendant Roger Herr as its sales manager in June 1999. R Homes initially wanted Herr to sign a non-competition agreement, but he refused…