Syncom Industries, Inc. v. Wood

Eldon Wood and William Hogan (plaintiffs) worked for Syncom Industries, Inc. (defendant), a movie-theater cleaning and maintenance company, under employment agreements containing three-year non-solicitation and non-compete covenants barring them from soliciting any Syncom customer in any territory or working for any competing business after leaving the company. After both left Syncom to found a directly competing company and obtained business from several former Syncom customers, Syncom sued for breach of the employment agreements; the trial court found the agreements enforceable and ruled for Syncom, and Wood and Hogan appealed.