Moore Business Forms, Inc. v. Foppiano

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Harrison County, entered August 28, 1987, which granted an injunction preventing the defendant below, William J. Poppiano, from engaging in the business of selling business forms in a nine-county area of north central West Virginia for a period of two years. The circuit court found that such activity violated a covenant not to compete contained in the defendant’s employment contract with his former employer and the plaintiff below, Moore Business Forms, Inc. (hereinafter Moore). The defendant contends that the restrictive covenant…