Keeran v. Wahl Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scanlan
An action by plaintiff, the inventor of the Eversharp Pencil, against The Wahl Company, the manufacturer of said pencil, and others, for damages that plaintiff claims resulted from a conspiracy of defendants to injure and damnify him; to despoil him of his rights and interests in said pencil, his patents thereon and all patents relating thereto, and all his rights and interests in the Eversharp Company; “to render nil and vacuous his future business ventures”; “to render impotent his inventive gifts,” and to ruin and destroy him through a series of alleged overt acts committed in pursuance of…
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- People v. BlumenbergIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
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