John G. Bryant Co. v. Sling Testing & Repair, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

NIX, Justice.

The instant appeal challenges the propriety of a Decree of the Chancellor granting a preliminary injunction to enforce a restrictive covenant in an employment agreement. William H. Crochiere, the individual appellant herein, accepted employment under an oral contract of employment with John G. Bryant Co., and Overhead Lifts Company in March 1963. The oral agreement of employment did not provide for a restrictive covenant not to compete. The two companies involved specialized in the field of selling and servicing of devices used in in dustrial material lifting.…