St. Louis & O'Fallon Coal Co. v. Dinwiddie

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity brought to determine the plaintiff’s right to certain inventions, made by certain of the defendants while employed by the plaintiff to conduct tests for the purpose of determining the commercial possibilities arising from the production of insulating brick, semi-coke smokeless fuel, and a variety of crude by-products, through the method of low-temperature distillation of coal.

The bill of complaint asks for relief by injunctions, preliminary and permanent, restraining defendants from using, selling, assigning, or otherwise disposing…