MARTIN v. KIDDE SALES AND SERVICE, INC.

No. 5235.

496 S.W.2d 714 (1973)

Douglas G. MARTIN, Appellant, v. KIDDE SALES AND SERVICE, INC., d/b/a Houston Fire & Safety Company, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco.

June 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wheat, Thornton, Shaw & Stillwell, E. H. Thornton, Jr., James L. Robertson, William L. Burnett, Houston, for appellant.

Fulbright, Crooker & Jaworski, M. W. Parse, Jr., Stephen C. Dillard, Houston, for appellee.


OPINION

JAMES, Justice.

This case involves a non-competing covenant in an employment contract. Defendant-Appellant Martin was a man twenty-eight years of age at the time of trial, with the equivalent of a high school education, and with a wife and four young children to support. From some time in 1968 until the early part of 1969 he had been previously employed by Plaintiff-Appellee Houston Fire and Safety Equipment Company (hereinafter called "Houston Fire...

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