Orkin Exterminating Company v. Burnett

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• explaining that an executory contract for personal services is assignable if the contract so provides or the party consents to or ratifies the assignment
• holding enforceable covenant restraining employee from doing business within ten miles for three years
• enforcing noncom-petition agreement where employee had been given eight weeks training in exterminating insects and methods of operation
• upholding three-year restriction on all competition with former employer; restraint not limited to employer's customers
• upholding three-year restriction on all competition with former employer; restraint not limited to employer’s customers
• enforcing noncompetition agreement where employee given eight weeks training in exterminating insects and methods of operation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).