Central Adjustment Bureau, Inc. v. Ingram

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This appeal under Rule 11, Tenn.R. App.P., involves non-competition clauses in employment contracts. It raises an issue regarding the consideration necessary to support such a covenant when it is entered into after employment has begun. In addition, the Court addresses the issue of whether a covenant not to compete, the geographic and time limitations of which are unnecessarily broad, can be judicially modified so as to make the covenant reasonable and enforceable.

I

The plaintiff-employer, Central Adjustment Bureau, a Texas corporation whose home office is in Dallas,…