Massachusetts Indemnity & Life Insurance v. Dresser

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting an employment contract’s damages provision for breach of a covenant not to compete
• rejecting the argument that the contract prohibited injunctive relief and explaining that “ ‘[a] contract will not be construed as taking away a common-law remedy unless that result is imperatively required’ ”
• “ ‘Although the parties may, in their contract, specify a remedy for a breach thereof, that specification does not exclude other legally recognized remedies. A contract will not be construed as taking away a common-law remedy unless that result is imperatively required .’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).