Kenyon v. Automatic Instrument Co.

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Blanche M. Kenyon, individually, and as Executrix under the Will of Bertram C. Kenyon, brought suit against appellee, Automatic Instrument Company, a Michigan corporation (herein called the Michigan corporation) for $150,000 for alleged breach of an agreement dated December 7, 1925 (Exhibit “A” to Complaint), to pay royalties upon the manufacture of a multiple disc phonograph alleged to have been invented by Kenyon.

The answer, among other things, set up the defense, that the agreement under which appellant claimed was non-assignable and non-transferable, and…