Troyer v. Fox

Plaintiff seeks by this action to recover from defendants twenty-five thousand dollars as the value of his half interest in certain patents transferred by him to the Continental Can Company. Plaintiff alleges that he was the owner of an undivided one-half interest in certain patents on machinery which he had designed, but which were being used by the Seattle-Astoria Iron Works; that the remaining one-half interest in the patents was owned by the iron works; that in October, 1927, he and the other stockholders of the iron works, desiring to sell their interest in the iron works to the…