Stein v. Stein Egg & Poultry Co.

WEIER, Judge.

When Lewis Stein, founder and president of Stein Egg and Poultry Company, Inc., retired from the company in March of 1975, he executed not only a stock sales agreement but also a consulting agreement which contained a covenant not to compete. Thereafter in December of 1976 he filed suit against the company to reform the consulting agreement by deleting the covenant not to compete. He also sought to permanently enjoin the company and Marshall Stein, a nephew and one of the owner-officers of the corporation, from enforcing the contract and for actual and punitive damages against…