Smith, Bell & Hauck, Inc. v. Cullins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[l]ike the contract for hiring, upon which it was given, the employee’s restrictive covenant is confined to the employer with whom the undertaking was made.”
• holding that a covenant not to compete contained in an employment contract could not be assigned by the employer to the purchaser of the employer’s business “without the employee’s consent or ratification”
• opining that beneficial interest in employment agreement was personal to employer and not assignable, even though employee used and intended to use the knowledge, experience and customer contacts acquired during employment with former employer
• opining that beneficial interest in employment agreement was personal to employer and not assignable, even though employee used and intended to use the knowledge, experience and customer contacts acquired during employment with former employer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).