Court enforces Covenant not to Compete in employee's contract
Steve Lesoski signed a covenant not to compete when he went to work for Brown Dairy Equipment, Inc. Four years later he left Brown to work for a competitor and immediately began soliciting farmer/clients for the new employer. Brown sought enforcement of the covenant through a preliminary injunction, which was granted by the trial judge. On appeal, the Court of Appeals upheld the injunction, finding that the three-year covenant for a limited region (the court did not define or explain the actual geographic region) was "reasonable."