Burton v. PET, INCORPORATED

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• agent employed by Pet, Inc., who entered into a contract to receive a fee from a prospective purchaser was thereby in a position to wrong his employer by failing to pursue other prospects
• in prohibiting an agent from contracting to serve an opposing party in acquiring his principal’s business, the law recognizes that “human nature is too weak to assure faithful service” in such circumstances and will not permit enforcement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).