Louise W. Gesing and St. Stanislaus Novitiate of Parma, Ohio v. Grand Rapids Hardware Company and Detroit Hardware Manufacturing Company

BOYD, District Judge.

This appeal is from the granting of a motion for summary judgment in an action for an accounting and for the recovery of royalties allegedly due under a licensing agreement. The original parties to the agreement were John H. Ges-ing, the inventor of a door exit hardware device known as a panic exit lock, and the Detroit Hardware Manufacturing Company, hereinafter referred to as Detroit, which company is not to be confused with the defendant in this case, which is a name-holding corporation only. The other defendant herein, Grand Rapids Hardware Company, purchased Detroit…