Sandlin v. Johnson

OTIS, District Judge.

This case now has been tried a second time. At the first trial judgment was against plaintiffs on plaintiffs’ case and against defendant on the counterclaim. (The counterclaim has been dismissed.) The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded. Sandlin et al. v. Johnson, 8 Cir., 141 F.2d 660, 661. The law of the case as declared by that court, so far as applicable, must govern in the second trial. That court said, “though a trade secret be unpatentable, it will nevertheless be protected from use or disclosure by one to whom it has been revealed in confidence.” Whether any…