Standard Register Co. v. Kerrigan

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “even though Kerrigan had been in the employ of the appellant for a number of years, his position and duties were changed when he signed the contract.”
• finding the laws of other jurisdictions, when deemed applicable by agreement, are generally enforceable in South Carolina unless repugnant to the public policy of this state
• upholding a non-solicitation agreement that precluded a former employee from “selling to the accounts or in the territory” where he had previously worked as a sales representative
• enforcing a non-solicitation agreement that precluded a former employee from “selling to the accounts or in the territory ” in which he had been performing his duties as a sales representative
• “The reason that contracts against competition are held to be unenforceable unless they meet certain criteria[ ] is that they constitute a restraint upon trade[,] which is against public policy.”
• distinguishing the situation in Kadis from that found in Kerrigan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).