Merit Dairy Products Corp. v. Gordon

242 A.D. 790

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 15, 1934
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order denying plaintiff’s motion for an injunction restraining defendant, pendente lite, from dealing with plaintiff’s customers, pursuant to an employment agreement, reversed on the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted upon condition that on or before October 29, 1934, the appellant file an undertaking with corporate surety in the sum of $1,000, to the effect that appellant will pay respondent such damages, not exceeding said sum, as he may sustain by reason of the injunction if the court finally decide that appellant is not entitled thereto, and upon the further condition that appellant consent to proceed to trial on Tuesday, October 30, 1934, with the consent of the justice presiding at Special Term, Part III, Kings county. In the event of appellant’s failure to comply with these conditions, the order is affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. Young, Carswell, Scudder and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., votes for reversal and the granting of a temporary injunction restraining the defendant from dealing with any customers with whom he dealt while in the employment of the plaintiff and upon the foregoing conditions with respect to an undertaking and proceeding to trial.