Insurance Center, Inc. v. Hamilton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a restrictive covenant was ancillary to the sale of a business when the purchase of the insurance company and continued employment of the business owner was intended to perpetuate and guarantee future sales
• discussing that in determining a covenant’s reasonableness, greater latitude is allowed for sale of business covenants than for employment covenants
• noting that a non-competition period that starts with the termination of employment is “customary in cases of noncompetitive covenants ancillary to an employment contract”
• mere necessity of accounting to determine damages for breach of contract insufficient to warrant equitable accounting
• ‘Where the goodwill [of a business] is sold and [the seller] is permitted to solicit and take the business, the goodwill is destroyed.”
• employment contract and sale of business covered the same transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).