Home Specialty Pest Control Company v. Frew

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Jefferson County, in equity, denying a temporary injunction in a suit brought by appellant to enjoin appellee from engaging in a competing business. The basis of the suit is an agreement entered into between the parties whereby the appellee, as an employee of appellant, agreed not to engage in the pest control business or any business engaging in the eradication and control of rats, mice, bugs, vermin, termites, beetles and other insects within the territory “known as cities of 50 mile radius of Birmingham” for a period…