Mid-States Paint & Chemical Co. v. Herr

How courts have described this case

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

• enforcing a non-compete agreement against a salesman that was modified by the trial court to a 125-mile radius for a two-year period
• finding radius of 125 miles reasonable where majority of industrial coatings company’s customers were within such radius, trial court had noted even 350-mile radius would have been reasonable
• modifying time and geographic coverage of non-compete agreement affecting sales representative
• finding a salesperson’s former sales territory constitutes an acceptable geographic restriction
• finding a salesperson’s former sales territory constitutes an acceptable geographic restriction
• “[A]n unreasonable restriction against competition in a contract may be modified and enforced to the extent that it is reasonable, regardless of the covenant’s form of wording.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).