Schavoir v. American Re-Bonded Leather Co.

The plaintiff brings this action to restrain the defendant from using or disclosing a certain formula and process which he claims to have originated and disclosed to the defendant under its promise to keep it secret and to use it only when authorized by him.

For several years prior to 1923 the plaintiff had been engaged in manufacturing various kinds of rubber goods and specialties. In and prior to that year, he, with his son, had been experimenting in the effort to produce a cushion fabric, known as channel cloth, to be placed between the metal piece which holds the glass in automobile…