Court Opinion

ID: 9588423
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:34:21.69357+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:18:01.057137
License: Public Domain

Jordan, Justice,
dissenting in part. I dissent from Division 2 (a) of the majority opinion declaring the noncompetition provisions of the contract void for the same reasons stated in my dissent in Richard P. Rita Personnel Services v. Kot, 229 Ga. 314, 318. The majority opinion here is doing exactly what was done in Rita, i.e., rewriting the contract for the parties. The parties to this *566contract in clear and unequivocal language set forth the noncompetition provisions of the contract in two distinct paragraphs with a specific severability clause. In lumping the two separate provisions into one and voiding both we have simply nullified the clear intent of the parties to this contract.
I would affirm the order of the trial court denying the motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim for the above stated reason as well as the reason stated in Division 2(b) of the opinion.
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Mobley and Presiding Justice Grice concur in what is said herein.