Guth v. Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co.

(after stating the facts as above).

Appellant was employed by appellee in the year’ 1927 as a chemical engineer at a salary of $150 per month, whieh wage was thereafter increased from time to time until it reached $225 per month. His employment terminated in June, 1930. His work was in appellee’s research laboratory. His assignment was to solve the problem presented by the laminating or tearing of paper tape when being unwound from the roll or removed from the surface to which it was adhered and also to endeavor to reduce the cost of adhesive tape manufacture.

Appellee for many years had been…