Chemical Cleaning, Inc. v. Chemical Cleaning & Equipment Service, Inc.

PARKER, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment denying enforcement of an agreement not to compete alleged to have been contained in an employment contract and an award of damages, both actual and exemplary, to the employee because of the efforts to enforce the contract. The confusing similarity of the names of the corporate parties (and the fact that a severance has eliminated the corporation shown in our caption as appel-lee), makes it imperative that we simplify the designation of the parties. We will refer to the plaintiff-appellant as “Chemical,” the employee as “Stafford,” and the…