Langberg v. Wagner

For purposes of preliminary restraint it must be assumed that defendant is only an employe of the competing firm named in his answer, and that his entire activities consist of window washing for that firm. This raises the inquiry whether defendant's covenant embraces that employment.

I am unable to doubt that this inquiry must be answered in the affirmative. A negative answer can only be had by reading into the covenant the words "as principal," whereas the language used more nearly excludes that limitation and the circumstances of the case clearly forbid qualification of that nature.

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