Abalene Pest Control Service, Inc. v. Powell

In this action for an injunction and for damages based upon restrictive covenants contained in a contract of employment, the plaintiff moves for a temporary injunction and the defendant, by cross motion, moves to dismiss the complaint for legal insufficiency.

It appears that in 1953 the defendant became employed as an exterminator by the Harder Extermination Service, Inc., which then conducted an exterminating service business in the Counties of Westchester, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk in this State, and in Fairfield County, Connecticut. When the defendant entered upon said employment, he…