E. D. Lacey Mills, Inc. v. Keith

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a corporate officer “is not ... entitled to solicit customers for a rival business before the end of his employment nor can he properly do other similar acts in direct competition with the employer’s business.”
• following termination, terminable-at-will employee who performed services under an employment contract may recover from employer compensation — including commissions — due for services rendered
• noting also that an employee breaches no fiduciary duty to an employer simply by making plans to enter a competing business while he is still employed
• observing that even an at-will employee who could not otherwise sue for breach of contract based on his or her termination “may sue on an oral contract ... for the amount of compensation due him, based upon services actually performed by him”
• employee owned five percent of the stock of the company with an option to purchase more
• when the employee has actually performed services under a contract terminable at will, he may recover from the employer the compensation due him for the services rendered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).