Philadelphia Towel Supply & Laundry Co. v. Weinstein

Citations

• 57 Pa. Super. 290
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 192

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Restraint óf trade — Master and servant — Injunction— Equity.</p> <p>Where a laundry company employs a driver on wages and commissions for a particular route, giving him a list of the names and addresses of the company’s customers along the route, and the driver in consideration of the employment and his wages covenants not to engage on his own account, or as agent for another, in the laundry business in the district assigned to him for one year after his employment ceased, such covenant will be enforced by a court of equity if the driver attempts to violate it; and this is the case although he may have voluntarily withdrawn from his employment with consent of his employer.</p>