J. E. Baker Co. v. Kennedy Refractories Co.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

Aside from any purely legal view of this controversy what has been called “the human-side view” is Janus-faced. The plaintiff advances, as he is justified in doing, this strong claim of merit that at a very critical stage in the experience of the steel industry, which is now of such overwhelming importance to our country and through it to the cause of humanity throughout the world, he came forward with a substitute for Austrian magnesite, the want of which would have crippled, if not paralyzed, that branch of the steel industry which has heretofore been dependent…