Israel v. Sommer

The facts appear in a master’s report confirmed by the Superior Court. Adolph Sommer, born and educated in Germany, was a druggist in California, where he first studied and then taught in the State University at Berkeley. There he discovered the formula from which he afterwards made his principal product, Visco!. About 1890 he removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and opened a factory. He lived alone, had no social relations, worked an unusual number of hours every day, never took a vacation nor allowed his employees to take any, permitted no conversation or cooperation among his employees,…