DeRose v. Holcomb

Nichols, Justice.

Ray Holcomb, as the employer, and John J. DeRose, as the employee, entered into an employment contract which contained a provision prohibiting the employee for a period of one year after the termination of the contract from using knowledge gained by his employment in a radius of ten miles from the employer’s place of business. The employment was terminated on November 15, 1969, and thereafter a petition was filed seeking an injunction against the employee when, according to the allegations of the petition, he entered business in competition with the employer at a location…