Frederick Bros. Artists Corp. v. Yates

The plaintiffs seek to enjoin and restrain the defendant from performing or rendering his personal services for anyone other than the plaintiffs pursuant to the terms of the agreements between the parties for the unexpired period thereof claiming his services are unique and cannot be replaced.

A review of the cases indicates that equity proceeds with some reluctance to enforce covenants of this kind since they savor of involuntary servitude. Thus, equity has confined its injunctive powers to those instances where the services of the defendant are shown, as applied to the particular case, to be…