Hutchinson v. The Fish Engineering Corp.

Seitz, Chancellor:

Plaintiff’s claims are that the managing officers of defendant Fish Company took advantage of a confidential relationship purportedly existing between themselves and plaintiff and in effect defrauded him in an effort to obtain for Fish Company title to some six patents which allegedly belong to him. The relief primarily sought is rescission and a declaration that title is in plaintiff or, in the alternative, recovery of the reasonable value of each such patent. Plaintiff seeks as further relief an accounting both of damages purportedly suffered by plaintiff as the result of…