Watkins v. Avnet, Inc.

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

Watkins sought a declaration in the lower court, among other things, that the restrictive covenants of an employment contract with one of the defendants, Fair-mount Motor Products, a corporate division of the other defendant, Avnet, were unenforceable. The trial judge denied the plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and certified his order for direct appeal.

The pleadings disclose that Watkins was the president and major ity stockholder in Southeastern Motor Products Company which Avnet acquired as a going concern under an agreement with the corporation and…