Cammack v. J. B. Slattery & Bro., Inc.

*878The following is the opinion of the court below:

Taylor, J.

The original contract dated the 19th day of July, 1915, was not distinctly a contract of employment of the plaintiff by the defendant, but partly that and partly a contract to compensate the plaintiff for the use of his ideas and plans, not necessarily patented or patentable, in connection with the gas-fired steam and gas-fired water radiators, in which his ideas were used by the defendant, who, with plaintiff’s assistance, had designed a form of such radiators even before the contract was signed. Such compensation was to be based upon…