Engel Sheet Metal Equipment, Inc. v. Shewman

WESTHUES, Judge.

Plaintiff, the Engel Sheet Metal Equipment, Inc., a corporation, filed this suit in October, 1954, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, to enjoin the defendants Gordon H. Shewman, Robert Burns, and Myron Wayne Grigsby, along with others, from manufacturing and selling tools and a sheet metal working machine referred to as the “Metal Miracle” allegedly the counterpart of the “Duct Master.” The suit was based on the theory that the defendants were using “trade secrets” of the plaintiff which had been illegally appropriated by the defendants. Plaintiff also…