Akron Pest Control v. Radar Exterminating Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a “nonsolicitation agreement could [not] be violated by failing to turn away the business of former customers”
• holding that a violation of a non-solicitation agreement required affirmative action, not just the acceptance of a customer’s business
• holding that a violation of a non-solicitation agreement required affirmative action, not just the acceptance of a customer’s business
• ruling that solicitation requires some affirmative action on the employee’s part; the employee’s mere acceptance of business did not in any sense constitute solicitation in violation of the restrictive covenant
• stating that the term \implies personal petition and importunity addressed to a particular individual to do some particular thing\
• noting that courts may turn to a dictionary for the plain, ordinary, and popular sense of a word in interpreting contracts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).