Berry v. Glidden Co.

BONDY, District Judge.

This is an action permanently to enjoin defendant from using or disclosing a secret formula which plaintiff alleges he originated and revealed to defendant in confidence. Plaintiff also seeks an accounting for any profits made by defendant as a result of its commercial exploitation of said formula. The action was removed to this court from the State court by reason of the diversity of citizenship of the parties.

Plaintiff, a wO’odfinisher for forty years, began to' - experiment' in 1937 in search of a practicable composition that would stain and fill -wood in one…