Evans Laboratories, Inc. v. Melder

Frank Holt, Justice.

Pursuant to restrictive covenants contained in an employment contract, the appellant sought to enjoin the appellees, its former employees, from “accepting, soliciting, diverting or appropriating or continuing to service” any former customers of appellant’s which were serviced by the appellees during their tenure of employment with appellant. After a hearing, a preliminary injunction was issued which prohibited appellees’ solicitation of former customers but not appellees’ acceptance of business from them if without solicitation. After an evidentiary hearing, the court…