Guffey v. Shelnut & Associates, Inc.

Hill, Presiding Justice.

This case involves a restrictive covenant in an employment contract. The former employees urge that such covenants must be limited as to territory. The employer urges that this is not a covenant against competition but is a covenant against customer solicitation (customer diversion), that such a covenant by its nature is limited as to territory by the location of those customers, and that the employment contract therefore need not specify the restricted territory by designated states or political boundaries.

Shelnut & Associates, Inc., a Richmond County corporation in…