Legal Opinion
Centrol, Inc. v. Morrow
South Dakota Supreme Court
Decided August 5, 1992No. 17417PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SABERS, Justice.
Defendants challenge the non-competition and non-disclosure provisions of their employment contracts and damages awarded for breach of same.
FACTS
Centrol, Inc. of South Dakota (Centrol) is a South Dakota cooperative consisting of member cooperatives. It provides customized soil and crop consulting services to farmers through employees known as “crop consultants.” These crop consultants develop a wide variety of valuable and confidential information. To protect this information and customer good will, Centrol required its crop consultants to execute employment agreements with…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Permann v. South Dakota Department of Labor, Unemployment Insurance DivisionSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1987
- Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc.South Dakota Supreme Court · 1976
- Kunkel v. United Security Ins. Co. of New JerseySouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1969
- Flockhart v. WyantSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1991
- Wangen v. KnudsonSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1988
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3Cited by28 opinions
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- Micro Data Base Systems, Inc., Cross-Appellee v. Dharma Systems, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
- Rehm v. LenzSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1996
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