Superior Gearbox Co. v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a five-year injunction prohibiting competition is valid under Missouri law
• “Protection of the employer, not punishment of the employee, is the essence of the law.”
• “[A] covenant restricting an employee’s right to compete must be reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate interests and reasonable as to time and geographic scope.”
• “[A] covenant restricting an employee’s right to compete must be reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate interests and reasonable as to time and geographic scope.”
• “[A] covenant restricting an employee’s right to compete must be reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate interests and reasonable as to time and geographic scope.”
• “[A] covenant restricting an employee’s right to compete must be reasonably necessary to protect the employer’s legitimate interests and reasonable as to time and geographic scope.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).