Court Opinion

ID: 9585215
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:57:41.490444+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:35:41.294632
License: Public Domain

Judge CLARK
dissenting:
The majority has ruled that the question of injunctive relief is moot. By writ of supersedeas on 21 December 1976 the Supreme Court stayed the enforcement of injunctive relief pending this appeal. The duration of the covenant not to compete also should be stayed or suspended pending appeal; otherwise, the supersedeas in effect would determine the substantive rights of the parties, the right to injunctive relief and the right to damages on dissolution under G.S. 1A-1, Rule 65(e).
After ruling that the question was rendered moot by the supersedeas, the majority has rendered an advisory opinion on the question of injunctive relief. In numerous cases in this State it has been held that an injunction will lie to restrain a defendant from engaging in a designated business in a prescribed territory in violation - of a valid contract where there is reasonable apprehension of irreparable loss. The history of annual renewals of the contracts with the schools and other circumstances are such that there is no practical and certain pecuniary standard for the measurement of damages. I am unable to distinguish in principle some of those numerous cases from the case sub judice.