Discussion Starter:Contract and it's elements for being a valid contract.

Discussion:Case: King v. Head Start Family Hair Salons, Inc.885 So.2d 769, Supreme Court of Alabama, 2004

Facts:Kathy King was a single mother supporting a college-age daughter. For 25 years, she had worked as a hairstylist. For the most recent 16 years, she had worked at Head Start, which provided haircuts, coloring, and styling for men and women. King was primarily a stylist, though she had also managed one of the Head Start facilities.

King quit Head Start and began working as the manager of a Sports Clips shop, located in the same mall as the store she just left.Head Start sued King, claiming that she was violating the noncompetition agreement that she had signed.The agreement prohibited King from working at a competing business within a two-mile radius of any Head Start facility for 12 months after leaving the company.The trial court issued an injunction enforcing the non-compete and King appealed.

Question:Was the noncompetition agreement valid?