Section 62 Examples of Time and Area Restrictions Upheld by Courts

• Library: Emp-Emp Law 2000

Missouri courts have upheld and enforced noncompetition agreements in a variety of circumstances involving many combinations of time and area restrictions.

• National Starch and Chem. Corp. v. Newman, 577 S.W.2d 99 (Mo. App. W.D. 1978) (two years; area where employee had solicited customers, which included ten states)

• Long v. Huffman, 557 S.W.2d 911 (Mo. App. W.D. 1977) (five years; sixty-mile radius of Butler, Missouri)

• Reed, Roberts Assocs., Inc. v. Bailenson, 537 S.W.2d 288 (Mo. App. E.D. 1976) (three years; three-state area of Michigan, Illinois, and Missouri)

• House of Tools and Eng’g, Inc. v. Price, 504 S.W.2d 157 (Mo. App. E.D. 1973) (three years; two-state area of Missouri and Illinois)
• Willman v. Beheler, 499 S.W.2d 770 (Mo. 1973) (five years; twenty-mile radius of city limits).

• Mills v. Murray, 472 S.W.2d 6 (Mo. App. W.D. 1971) (three years; no area limitation).

• R. E. Harrington, Inc. v. Frick, 428 S.W.2d 945 (Mo. App. E.D. 1968) (three years; three-state area of Missouri, Ohio, and Texas).

• State ex rel. Schoenbacher v. Kelly, 408 S.W.2d 383 (Mo. App. E.D. 1966) (no time limitation; St. Louis County).

• Thompson v. Allain, 377 S.W.2d 465 (Mo. App. W.D. 1964) (three years; fifty-mile radius of St. Joseph, Missouri).

• Renwood Food Prods., Inc. v. Schaefer, 223 S.W.2d 144 (Mo. App. E.D. 1949)...