Home Gas Corp. v. Strafford Fuels, Inc.

The defendants appeal from orders of the Superior Court {Gray, J.) enjoining them from engaging in certain business practices that the plaintiff claims to be prohibited by the terms of a distributorship agreement executed in 1982. As we read the orders, they prohibit the defendants’ use for their own competitive purposes of lists naming liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) customers whom the defendant Strafford Fuels, Inc. previously served on the plaintiff’s behalf, and they generally prohibit the defendants from competing with the plaintiff for LPG business in the Rochester, New Hampshire, service…