Contour Chair Lounge Co. v. Aljean Furniture Manufacturing Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
DOERNER, Commissioner.
Defendants appeal from a judgment and decree enjoining them from competing with plaintiffs, in violation of a contract containing a covenant not to compete executed only by defendant Joseph F. Laskowitz.
Laskowitz is the designer and inventor of a distinctive type of chair with a movable one-piece top, shaped to fit the body, which moves in an arc on a stationary base. He caused the plaintiff Contour Chair Lounge Company, Inc., to be incorporated in 1947 to manufacture the chair, and the co-plaintiff Contour Sales, Inc., to be formed to sell the same, and was president of…
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