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· 6/29/1967

Capital Bakers, Inc. v. Townsend

Citations

  • 426 Pa. 188
  • 231 A.2d 292
  • 1967 Pa. LEXIS 559

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that a restrictive covenant in an employment contract executed 12 years after the start of employment was unenforceable for lack of consideration
  • holding covenant in an employment agreement executed some 12 years after the initial taking of employment was not incident to the taking of employment
  • finding unenforceable for lack of consideration a non-competition agreement executed twelve years after the start of employment
  • \ '[T]rade secrets' which will be so protected must be particular secrets of the complaining employer and not general secrets of the trade in which he is engaged.\
  • restrictive covenant in employment contract executed 12 years after the start of employment was unenforceable for lack of consideration
  • restrictive covenant in employment contract executed 12 years after the start of employment was unenforceable for lack of consideration

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Judges: Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Cohen

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