Arrant v. Georgia Casualty Co.

The propositions of law upon which appellant bases his right to recover under his pleas of recoupment are thus stated by his counsel in their brief:(1) Property rights exist in information, and one who spends time, money, labor, and thought in codifying and tabulating information is the owner of it.(2) Such owner may communicate such information to another without thereby destroying his property rights in it, and one who acquires such information by virtue of a confidential relationship with the owner, or for a contractually limited purpose, cannot use it for other purposes to the prejudice…