Chapman v. Superior Court

PATROSSO, J. pro tem. *

Mandate to review the action of the respondent court in denying petitioner’s motion to quash service of summons.

Eastman Oil Well Survey Company, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, instituted an action against the petitioner in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on September 17, 1957, wherein it seeks damages and an injunction to restrain petitioner, a former employee, from divulging and making available to plaintiff’s former customers trade secrets, knowledge of which he acquired by reason of his employment. From the allegations of the complaint it appears that…