Iron City Laundry Co. v. Leyton

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 93
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 324

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Restraint of trade — Lack of mutuality — Equity.</p> <p>A bill in equity to restrain a defendant from soliciting or collecting laundry work will be dismissed, where it appears that the plaintiff, a laundry company, agreed in writing to employ the defendant as a collector on wages and commission; that the agreement stipulated that the defendant should not leave his employment except upon two weeks’ notice, and that when he did so he would not solicit laundry work; that the agreement further stipulated that the plaintiff might dismiss the defendant without notice and for any.reason whatever; that the plaintiff purchased no property from the defendant; and that the defendant after withdrawing from plaintiff’s service solicited work from the same customers that he had when he entered the plaintiff’s employment.</p>