Doscher v. Phelps Guardant Time Lock Co.
New York Supreme Court
Action by a stockholder to compel the president and general manager of defendant to transfer to the company certain letters patent.
1Opinion of the CourtGuy, J.
The plaintiff, a stockholder of the defendant company, brings the action in the right of the corporation .to compel the individual defendant, E. B. Phelps, its president and general manager, to transfer, assign and set over to the company certain letters patent of a time l.ock granted him in September, 1914, upon the grounds, first, that as general manager of the company the defendant was by contract bound to give the. corporation the benefit of his inventions, and, second, that the relations of the parties defendant establish the plaintiff’s right to the relief demanded. No such contractual…
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