Oppenheimer v. Sayer

The complainants, doing business in New York and Chicago, selling sausage casings, butchers’ supplies, meat and meat products, in 1884 employed the defendant, then about twenty years of age, as a traveling salesman, at a salary of seven dollars per week and one per cent, upon all sales made by him; and a few days after procured from the defendant a written agreement, in substance, that in consideration of such employment and of one dollar and other good and sufficient considerations, not to make known any information or trade secrets relative to the business of complainants, and that neither…