Justin Belt Co., Inc. v. Yost

STEAKLEY, Justice.

It is the recognized rule that non-competition agreements in the employer-employee relationship are enforceable when made during employment. The initial question here is the enforceability or not, subject of course to the test of reasonableness as to time and area, and to judicial reformation if need be, of such an agreement fairly made in settlement of a pending suit by an employer against former employees. The suit here was for damages and injunctive relief for breach of confidential relations in the nature of a conspiratorial disclosure by the former employees of trade…