Henry Berolzheimer v. The Heil Company, a Corporation

KNOCH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Henry Berolzheimer, brought this action in the Superior Court of Cook County for injunction, accounting and damages for breach of a confidential disclosure, wrongful appropriation of an allegedly original and novel concept for a refuse collection truck body, and breach of contract. After the case had been removed to the Distinct Court (there was diversity of citizenship), plaintiff amended his complaint to request compulsory assignment of defendant’s patent.

The District Judge tried the cause without a jury, made his findings of fact and conclusions of…