Johnson v. Steffens

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This Avas a bill in chancery tiled upon an oral agreement to compel Mathew J. Steffens, defendant, to convey to Frank E. Johnson, complainant, an undivided half interest in certain letters patent granted to said Steffens by the United States for a certain invention by which finished photographs could be automatically taken, with or without sunlight, by means of an apparatus Avhich should be set in motion by dropping a coin in the slot, of sufficient value to •compensate for the photograph; also for an injunction to prevent…