Ivey v. Massey

This is an appeal by respondents from a decree overruling their demurrer' to a bill in equity. The bill seeks an injunction, temporary and permanent, but' no injunction has been issued. The'question on the appeal therefore concerns only the demurrer.

The injunction sought is to prohibit re-, spondents from violating an agreement “to refrain from carrying on or engaging in a similar business to that herein conveyed, and from soliciting old customers of such *366business, either individually or as an employee of others, for a period of five (5) years from the date hereof, in Etowah County, Alabama,…