Caine & Estes Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Watts

Ness, Justice:

Appellant Watts appeals the order of the trial court upholding the validity of an employment agreement between the parties and ordering its specific performance. Watts asserts the non-competing clause contained in the agreement renders it invalid. We disagree and affirm.

While employed with respondent Caine & Estes Insurance Company in Greenville, South Carolina, Watts executed two agreements with the Company.

First, an employment agreement with a non-competing clause, dated August 1974; and second, an agreement for the sale of stock and to preserve good will, dated August 1978.

Sub…