Somerset v. Reyner

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to enforce state-wide territorial restriction where majority of company’s business came from a local area
• “If... the territorial scope of the restraint is unreasonable ... no inquiry need be made as to the presence or absence of other necessary requirements.”
• “[I]f... the territorial scope of the restraint is unreasonable ... no inquiry need be made as to the presence or absence of the other necessary requirements.”
• wherein the court struck down a covenant not to compete where the customers of a store “came almost entirely” from a smaller area within the proscribed territory even though all the customers came from the proscribed area
• excessive covenant not to compete not supported by estoppel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).