Royer v. Stoody Company

CHANDLER, Chief Judge.

This action is brought by plaintiffs Clady Royer, Blanton W. Hoover and James T. Hoover, doing business as Track Service Company, against the defendant Stoody Company for damages and injunctive relief, and is before the court on the plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability only and on defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

Plaintiffs’ company, among other things, repairs and rebuilds used rollers on track type equipment and in 1958 developed a new method of rebuilding such rollers by flame hardening the flanges on the rollers. Plaintiffs…