JEWEL BOX STORES CORPORATION v. MORROW

No. 687.

158 S.E.2d 840 (1968)

272 N.C. 659

JEWEL BOX STORES CORPORATION and the Jewel Box of Morganton, Inc. v. J. Roy MORROW.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 2, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stern, Rendleman & Clark, by David M. Clark and Robert O. Klepfer, Jr., Greensboro, for plaintiff appellees.

Simpson & Simpson, by Dan R. Simpson, Morganton, for defendant appellant.


SHARP, Justice.

This action is for an injunction to restrain the seller of a business from breaching his covenant not to compete with the purchaser. Its venue is the county in which plaintiffs or defendant (or any of them) resided at its commencement, G.S. § 1-81. For the purpose of suing and being sued, the residence of a domestic corporation (formed after 1 July 1957 and having a registered office) is the county in which the registered office of the corporation...

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