Matarese v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises the issue whether a corporation may be required to pay the reasonable value of the use of certain inventive ideas disclosed by an employee ta an agent of the corporation in the expectation of payment where an express contract fails for want of proof of the agent’s authority. Here the plaintiff, being refused compensation, brought suit upon an alleged express contract to pay one-third of the savings realized by the defendants through the use of his devices. The suit having been instituted in the Supreme Court of -New York, defendants removed it to the…