Roy v. Bolduc

This is a proceeding in equity to restrain a former salesman from competing with the real estate agent by whom he had been employed. Answer having been made and replication filed, on hearing, a decree dismissing the bill with costs was signed and entered. The case comes forward on appeal. The printed case shows that the plaintiff Joseph A. Roy had for several years been a real estate agent in Waterville, Maine, and has established a substantial and lucrative business. The methods he has used in attaining this success, however, have been neither original nor unique. He is a heavy advertiser but his copy follows forms well known in the business and the mediums he uses are not unusual. His office methods and systems are as common-place. He operates in a field where there are numerous competing real estate agencies and nearly all of his customers are transient and few, if any, are repeaters.