Reed v. A. E. Little Co.

This case comes up on a report by a single justice of this court after he had overruled so much of the answer as was a demurrer.

The plaintiff was a mechanic and inventor and was asked by A. E. Little, president of the defendant company acting as its agent, to enter the company’s employment and assign to it certain patents and applications for patents on a lock-stitch machine in accordance with the terms of a written contract. The contract was dated November 4, 1920, and provided, among other things, that the plaintiff should give all his time and best efforts to perfecting the patent; that…