Professional Business Management, Inc. v. Clark

Plaintiff, Professional Business Management, Inc., (hereinafter called PBM), filed a verified complaint on September 12, 1966, for a temporary and permanent injunction restraining defendant, who had voluntarily terminated his employment with plaintiff on September 30, 1965, from breaching an alleged provision of their written employment agreement, as follows:

“Second party [i. e., defendant] expressly covenants . . . that for a period of two years following the termination of his employment ... he will not directly or indirectly . . . engage in the business of a professional business counselor…