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GILBERT v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Civ. No. 320.

41 F.Supp. 525 (1941)

GILBERT v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION.

District Court, W. D. New York.

September 23, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Keiper, of Rochester, N. Y. (Werner, Harris & Tew by Hugh J. O'Brien, all of Rochester, N. Y., and John D. Meyer, of Pittsburgh, Pa., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Frederic R. Twelvetrees, of Buffalo, N. Y. (Drury W. Cooper and Allan C. Bakewell, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.

BURKE, District Judge.

The basis of plaintiff's claim is that he submitted in confidence to the defendant a novel device consisting of an automobile starting switch and that the defendant in abuse of the confidence appropriated the underlying idea of his device in developing and manufacturing its own starter control which, he claims, is but a modified equivalent of his switch and embodying its fundamental idea. This switch, he claims, has been used on defendant's...

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