Disbrow v. Creamery Package Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Steele county for an accounting or to recover $350,000 damages, for the alleged conspiracy on the part of defendants whereby plaintiff was deprived' of the profits otherwise accruing to him upon the sale of certain churns and creamery devices patented by him. From an order, Buckham, J., sustaining demurrers interposed by each of the defendants on the ground of a defect of parties plaintiff, plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJaggard, J.
Plaintiff, the inventor of certain patented creamery devices, who was about to procure other patents, was engaged in the manufacture and sale of churns and the like with certain persons to be referred to herein as “his associates.” A series of transactions with the defendant company and another company, which involved various assignments of the patents issued, the taking out of new patents in the name of a third person, the promise to pay royalties, and the creation of indebtedness, resulted in business complications which were solved by the execution of' certain contracts. Plaintiff, his…
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