Hebb v. Stump, Harvey & Cook, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that a covenant not to compete must be construed against the drafting party where there is an ambiguity
• discussing Ruhl v. F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co., 245 Md. 118, 225 A.2d 288 (1967); MacIntosh v. Brunswick, 241 Md. 24, 215 A.2d 222 (1965)
• restraining covenant’s lack of a specified geographical area not problematic where appellant not prevented generally from doing business but prevented only from doing business with former employer’s clients
• restraining covenant's lack of a specified geographical area not problematic where appellant not prevented generally from doing business but prevented only from doing business with former employer's clients
• covenant forbidding management consultant to solicit or service former clients not unreasonable
• overbroad restrictions are severable from otherwise valid noncompetition agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).