American Ice Co. v. Hunter

Citations

• 60 Pa. Super. 311
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 187

Syllabus

<p>Master and servant — Contract not to continue business — Preliminary injunction — Equity.</p> <p>A preliminary injunction will not he granted on a bill in equity filed by an ice company to restrain one of its, drivers from continu? ing in the ice business within certain limits in violation of a written agreement not to do so for a year after the termination of his employment, where the answer sets forth that although no term of employment was fixed in the written contract, the writing was signed with the understanding and agreement made at the time it was executed, that the employment should continue as theretofore, as an employment from year to year, that the defendant had been an employee of the plaintiff for more than seven years prior to signing the writing, and that prior to the expiration of the year he had been improperly discharged, without any proper or reasonable cause therefor. - ■</p>