Lomkin

This is an appeal from a joint and several money judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant Lomkin, who was a former employee of the plaintiff, and against Richard A. Munnecke and defendant corporation, Calar Chemical Company, the present employers of Lomkin for, among other things, unfair solicitation of customers and unfair competition.

The court made extensive findings based upon substantial evidence or the inferences which might be drawn from such evidence. A résumé follows.

The plaintiff at the time of the bringing of the action was a California corporation. The defendant, Munnecke, was the president of Calar Chemical Company, a California corporation, hereinafter referred to as Calar and he acted for Calar in the transactions in question. The plaintiff was engaged in the sanitary maintenance supply business, had a large warehouse and kept on hand a large stock of supplies which were sold in the business by plaintiff to its customers throughout parts of Southern California. The customers were principally schools, hospitals, hotels, apartment houses and motels, cafés, garages, military camps, amusement parks and establishments which maintain rest rooms for…