Interstate Chemical Corp. v. Duke
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Interstate Chemical Corporation and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 29th day of February, 1916, dismissing the complaint upon a decision of the court after a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The action is in equity and has to do with certain contracts made between the plaintiffs and the defendant and one Thomas *686L. Willson, all relating to the proposed development and exploitation of a process said to have been invented by said Willson for the production of free phosphoric acid from phosphate rock without the use of sulphuric acid, and for the production in connection therewith of commercial fertilizers. Some of these contracts it is sought to annul. Others it is sought to specifically enforce after they have been modified by the addition of oral terms said to have been…
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