Legal Opinion
Burwell v. American Coke & Chemical Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1925No. 1720PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
In this ease the presiding judge directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of all the evidence; which is assigned as error.
The plaintiffs, five in number, organized in 1917 the Western Reserve Chemical Company for the purpose of manufacturing chemicals by a secret process devised by one of them, Arthur W. Burwell. In this process the electrolytic method was used, by which acids once used for oxidizing purposes could be used several times.
This corporation began operations in Cleveland, Ohio; and by the beginning of 1919 had- expended over $300,000 in making this…
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