Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance v. Jones

Appellant brought this action to enforce a covenant not to compete ancillary to an employment contract.

In September, 1972, appellee Jimmy Donald Jones accepted employment as an insurance agent with appellant Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company. The contract of employment provided that appellee would not engage in the business of selling fire or casualty insurance and would not accept any fire or casualty insurance business from any of appellant’s policyholders "within 25 miles of the city limits of the city in which the Company office to which he is assigned under this contract is…