Central Keystone Plating of Illinois, Inc. v. Hutchison

Plaintiff, engaged in the electroplating business, employed the defendant as sales manager to represent the plaintiff in soliciting and selling electroplating services to automobile dealers and operators of automobile repair shops. Acting under an employment contract with the plaintiff, the defendant maintained his office in Lincoln, Illinois, and solicited and served customers in some seventeen central Illinois counties.

In September of 1964 the employment relationship between the parties was terminated. The defendant immediately became associated with another employer, engaged in the same…