Ragon

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment denying its application for an injunction to restrain the defendant from soliciting laundry work from plaintiff’s customers who were formerly served by the defendant while he was in the plaintiff’s employ as a driver of one of its laundry wagons.

The trial court found that defendant had not at any time solicited any laundry work from any persons who were former customers of plaintiff and that said defendant did not ask nor request any of the former customers of plaintiff to give their laundry work to him or to any competitor of plaintiff; but that, on the contrary, each and every one of said persons who was a former customer of said plaintiff, and who since the termination of said defendant’s employment with plaintiff had been giving her laundry work to defendant, had done so at her own instance and request and freely and voluntarily on her part, without any solicitation, inducement or request whatever directly or indirectly by the defendant, or any of his servants, agents, employees, or any person whatever acting in aid of or in concert with him.

The plaintiff called the defendant as a witness and he testified that he had never…