Chrysalis Health Care, Inc. v. Brooks

Mark P. Painter, Judge.

This decision is the result of a trial held before this court on March 23, 1994, after which post-trial memoranda were filed. Both counsel are to be commended both for the trial, which concentrated on the facts actually in dispute, and the arguments of law, which were well-researched, though under a handicap which will become clear. At issue is the enforceability of a covenant not to compete clause in an employment agreement entered into by plaintiff and defendant.

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Facts

Plaintiff, Chrysalis Health Care, is an Ohio corporation doing business as Geriatric Nursing Care,…