Lufkin's Real Estate, Inc. v. Aseph

The plaintiff brought two bills in equity to “determine and adjudicate” that the defendants committed a breach of their respective employment contracts with the plaintiff and to enjoin them from engaging in the real estate business in violation of a restrictive covenant contained in these contracts. The cases were ordered to be tried together and were referred to a master. He made subsidiary findings and concluded that the defendants violated the covenant and that they “made one sale through information acquired while working for the . . . [plaintiff] and that the commission on this sale was…