Avenue Z Wet Wash Laundry Co. v. Yarmush

There are sufficient facts shown here to warrant the court in restraining the individual defendant who has gone into the service of the corporate defendant after leaving the service of the plaintiff, if there was a contractual relation existing between this plaintiff and the individual defendant.

It appears that in 1924 the defendant entered into a contract with the East End West Wash Laundry Co., Inc., whereby he was to solicit customers for the laundry company at a stipulated compensation. The territory in which he was to operate was specified in the contract and it provided that in the…