SIMKO, INC. v. GRAYMAR CO.

No. 1496, September Term, 1982.

55 Md. App. 561 (1983)

464 A.2d 1104

SIMKO, INC. ET AL. v. GRAYMAR COMPANY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided September 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Snyder, Jr. and Kevin A. Dunne, with whom were Ober, Grimes & Shriver on the brief, for appellants.

Steven K. Fedder, with whom were Ann MacNeille and Weinberg & Green on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before WEANT and GETTY, JJ., and ALBERT T. BLACKWELL, JR., Associate Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


WEANT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1971, Paul H. Smith, an employee of the Graymar Company, was asked, along with all other Graymar salesmen, to sign an agreement not to compete with Graymar should they ever leave its employ. Smith declined. Thereafter Smith was informed that he would be fired if he did not so agree. Because his wife was pregnant with their first child and he was facing embarrassment, he knuckled under and signed the agreement providing...

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