GENERAL MEDICAL CORP. v. KOBS

No. 92-2857.

179 Wis.2d 422 (1993)

507 N.W.2d 381

GENERAL MEDICAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James KOBS, Defendant, BADGER MEDICAL SUPPLY COMPANY, a Wisconsin corporation, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the plaintiff-appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Ronald G. Pezze, Jr., and Terry E. Johnson of Peterson, Johnson & Murray of Milwaukee, and Daniel A. Carrell and Michael C. Whitticar of Hunton & Williams of Richmond, Virginia.

For the defendant-respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of H. Dale Peterson and Richarld L. Bolton of Stroud, Stroud, Willink, Thompson & Howard of Madison.

Before Eich, C.J., Gartzke, P.J., and Sundby, J.


EICH, C.J.

General Medical Corporation sued Badger Medical Supply Company for tortious interference with a contract. General claimed that when Badger, one of its competitors in the medical supply business, hired a former General employee, James Kobs, it wrongly interfered with a restrictive covenant in Kobs's employment contract prohibiting him from competing with General for a period of time after leaving his job.1

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