Russell v. Wall Wire Products Co.

This is not a complicated case. If it seems so it is because we must undertake certain technical descriptions which are difficult to follow without careful examination of the devices themselves, and the patents relating thereto, which were made available to the Court, as well as the trial court.

In essence this is a case of alleged stealing, not the kind of stealing condemned in the criminal code, but the gentler kind that is called the appropriation and use of another’s secret. This is what happened :

The plaintiff (who died after commencement of suit, but who will be referred to herein, for…