Maxim v. E. L. Tebbets Spool Co.

Plaintiff sued to recover damages based on the charge that defendants conspired to prevent him from securing a patent on an automatic lathe which he claimed to have invented. Defendants filed general demurrers which were overruled. Exceptions were seasonably taken, bringing the case forward. The sole issue, therefore, is whether or not plaintiff’s declaration sets out a cause of action on which he is entitled to be heard.

The facts related and relied upon may be summarized as follows. In 1912 and 1913, plaintiff “conceived an invention” relating *400to an automatic lathe used in wood turning,…