Hyde Corporation v. Huffines

BOYD, Justice.

Appellant Hyde Corporation appeals from a judgment for appellee James Donle Huffines for $17,520 for royalties on the sale of refuse compressor mechanisms, for $3,000 for attorney’s fees, and for a permanent injunction restraining appellant from manufacturing or selling any device made substantially in accordance with any feature of a refuse compressor mechanism as described in an original patent application made by appellee, and in a patent.

Appellee alleged that he was the designer and inventor of a refuse compressor mechanism, which was a valuable device for vehicles used in…