McCandless v. Carpenter

SWANSTROM, Judge.

This case involves a dispute between two irrigation pipe repair business operators after one of them sold some used pipe repair equipment to the other. The seller brought this action to enforce noncompetition provisions of the sale contract between the two, requesting injunctive relief and liquidated damages. After trial, the district court ruled that the noncompete agreement lacked sufficient consideration to support specific performance of the agreement. The court also declined to enforce the liquidated damages provision based on the conclusion that the noncompete clause…