TRAVENOL LABORATORIES, INC. v. TURNER

No. 7614SC271.

228 S.E.2d 478 (1976)

30 N.C. App. 686

TRAVENOL LABORATORIES, INC. v. Conrad K. TURNER, Cutter Laboratories, Inc., and Billy Morris.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sanford, Cannon, Adams & McCullough by J. Allen Adams, Robert W. Spearman and H. Hugh Stevens, Jr., Raleigh, for plaintiff appellant-appellee, Travenol Laboratories, Inc.

Boyce, Mitchell, Burns & Smith by G. Eugene Boyce and James M. Day, Raleigh, for defendant appellant-appellee, Conrad K. Turner.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice by Charles F. Vance, Jr., Linwood L. Davis and W. Andrew Copenhaver, Winston Salem, for defendant appellants-appellees, Cutter Laboratories, Inc. and Billy Morris.


CLARK, Judge.

This case presents several issues for resolution. At the outset we are presented with a conflict of laws issue. The employment agreements executed by the defendant Turner in 1966 and 1971 were made in the State of California, where Turner was then employed by plaintiff. These agreements, substantially identical, contained (1) a covenant not to compete, and (2) a covenant not to disclose confidential information and trade secrets.

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