Commonwealth Sanitation Co. of Cleveland, Inc. v. Commonwealth Pest Control Co.

This is an appeal on questions of law and fact from a judgment granting an injunction in favor of Commonwealth Sanitation Company of Cleveland, Inc., and against Commonwealth Pest Control Company, Commonwealth Exterminating Company, Bernard D. Crosby and Murray M. Kline.

In this opinion the appellee will be designated “Commonwealth,” and the appellants will be called “Crosby and Kline.”

In 1948, Bernard D. Crosby and Murray M. Kline came to Cleveland, Ohio, to manage Commonwealth. They worked for Commonwealth until February 28, 1961. On March 1, 1961, Crosby and Kline began the operation of a…