Dial Toaster Corp. v. Waters-Genter Co.

1 Reported in 233 N.W. 870. After adverse findings and order for judgment its motion for a new trial was denied, and plaintiff appeals.

The action arises from a "patent pooling" contract of March 19, 1927. The patents involved covered automatic electric bread toasters and improvements thereto. One, known as the Rogers patent, was owned by plaintiff. Others, the "Strite patents," were owned by defendant Waters-Genter Company, hereinafter referred to as though it were the sole defendant. Its codefendant, Walter E. Johnson, can be more conveniently designated by his surname only. He was the third…