Simms v. Burnette

Citations

• 55 Fla. 702

Syllabus

<p>1. A breach of contract for ordinary personal service is fully remediable at law.</p> <p>2. Equity will not enjoin a breach of contract of a boolc keeper not to engage in the liquor business in the State in the absence of some special equity, involving good-will, peculiar intellectual or other skill or capacity, secret process of, business or other recognized ground.</p> <p>3. The knowledge acquired by a book keeper as to where and what his employer buys and to whom he sells does not authorize an injunction against a breach of contract not to enter into similar business, there being no trade secret or secret process involved.</p> <p>4. Difficulty in detecting all the violations of a contract and alleged insolvency of the defendant do not make out an equity for injunction upon an original bill.</p>