Harrington v. National Outdoor Advertising Co.

Action for $300,000 actual and $900,000 punitive damages for alleged conspiracy of defendants and others to wrongfully procure[788] the disclosure of and to wrongfully appropriate plaintiff's trade secret or invention. The jury returned a verdict for defendants, and plaintiff has appealed from the ensuing judgment.

It was alleged by plaintiff that defendants, conspiring, induced the disclosure of plaintiff's invention by means of a contract executed March 18, 1936, whereby defendant National Outdoor Advertising Company (in bad faith) undertook to sell a large number of the units of plaintiff's…