This is a similar case to
Gordon
v.
Landau,
(
†
Cal.App.) [
There is no need to repeat in this opinion the facts as to plaintiffs’ business, and their relations with their customers and employees. These may be read in the Schwartz and Lаndau cases.
Suffice it to say here that Robert S. Wasserman, defendant in this case, wаs also a collector-salesman for plaintiffs; that he quit their employ, went into thе same business, and then used plaintiffs’ lists to solicit customers for himself.
In this case the trial court adjudged damages for plaintiffs and enjoined any further use of their lists by defendant.
*329 Substantial evidence supports that part of the judgment. Therefore, these matters do not rеquire further comment in this opinion.
But in this case this court must determine the validity of a contract between plaintiffs and defendant, in which defendant agreed not to solicit plaintiffs’ customers for a year after the termination of his employment with them. This determinatiоn was not necessary to the decision in the Landau case.
Defendant contеnds that there was no consideration for the contract; that it is too vague and uncertain to be enforceable ; that no wages or conditions of employmеnt are specified in it; and that it has an unlawful object and is therefore void.
The last оbjection is,the only one that merits any particular consideration.
• " It clearly аppear^ in the contract that there was a consideration, and that.it is neither vague nor uncertain. And to be valid it did not have to state wages or conditions of employment.
The last objection presents a more debatable question: Did the contract restrain defendant from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business, within the meaning of section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code?
(Cf.
Civ. Code, § 1598; Bus. & Prof. Code, § 16600; and
Aetna Bldg. Maintenance Co.
v.
West,
That part of the contract necessary to a consideration of this question is as follows:
“(8) Collector-salеsman further agrees that during the period of one (1) year immediately after the terminаtion of his employment with the employer he will not, either directly or indirectly, make knоwn or divulge the names or addresses of any of the customers or patrons of emрloyer at the time he entered the employ of employer or with whom he became acquainted after entering the employ of employer to any pеrson, firm or corporation, and that he will not directly or indirectly, either for himself or for any other person, firm, company or corporation, call upon, solicit, divert, or take away or attempt to solicit, divert or take away any of the customers, business or patrons, of the employer upon whom he called or whom he solicited or to whom he catered or with whom he became acquainted, оr upon whom he called or to whom he catered after his employment with said employer.
“ (9) Collector-salesman hereby consents and agrees that *330 for any violation of any of the provisions of this agreement, a restrаining Order and/or an injunction may issue against him in addition to any other rights the employer may hаve.
“(10) In the event that the employer is successful in any suit or proceeding brought or institutеd by the employer to enforce any of the provisions of the within agreement or on account of any damages sustained by the employer by reason of the violation by the collector-salesman of any of the terms and/or provisions of this Agrеement to be performed by the collector-salesman, collector-sаlesman agrees to pay to the employer reasonable attorneys’ fees to be fixed by the Court.”
It clearly appears by the terms of the contract that it does not prevent defendant from carrying on a weekly credit, or any other businеss. He covenants not to use plaintiffs’ confidential lists to solicit customers for himself. Similiаr covenants have been held valid and enforceable in
King
v.
Gerold,
Defendant finally contends that the complaint does not state a cause of action. Little needs to be said about this, for a reading of the complaint demonstrates that it does stаte a cause of action.
The judgment is affirmed.
White, P. J., and Fourt, J., concurred.
A petition for a rehearing was denied September 10, 1957, and appellant’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied October 16, 1957.