McNeilus Companies, Inc. v. Sams

OPINION

LAGARDE, Justice.

Pursuant to a contractual covenant not to compete, appellants McNeilus Companies, Inc. and McNeilus Financial, Inc. d/b/a McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing Co. 1 seek to enjoin their former employee, appel-lee George Preston Sams, from working for a McNeilus competitor. Finding that the non-competition agreement was unreasonably broad, the trial court denied McNeilus’s application for a temporary injunction. This interlocutory appeal followed. McNeilus asserts two points of error. First, McNeilus contends that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the…