CITIZENS BANK & TR. CO. v. WEST BANK AGENCY, INC.

No. 87 CA 1797.

540 So.2d 440 (1989)

CITIZENS BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. WEST BANK AGENCY, INC. and Stephen Harmon.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied May 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon A. Pugh, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee Citizens Bank & Trust Co.

Michael J. Uter, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant West Bank Agency, Inc., et al.

Before WATKINS, CRAIN and ALFORD, JJ.


WATKINS, Judge.

This case presents the interesting question of the application vel non of the civilian theory of "promesse de porte-fort" to a non-competition agreement for solicitation of insurance business, which agreement is part of an act of sale of an insurance agency. We conclude that the acts inherent in the obligation assumed by the seller, to the extent that those acts purport to restrain solicitation by a third person insurance agent, are prohibited...

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