VAN RENSSELAER v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

No. 15275.

324 F.2d 354 (1963)

Robert S. VAN RENSSELAER and Edna Van Rensselaer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware and transacting business in Michigan, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 12, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Schneider, Cincinnati, Ohio (Waite, Schindel, Bayless & Schneider, Cincinnati, Ohio, Edna E. Van Rensselaer, West Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief), for appellants.

George W. Coombe, Jr., Detroit, Mich. (Aloysius F. Power, Gen. Counsel, General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich., on the brief; Jeal L. Carpenter, Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for appellee.

Before WEICK, Circuit Judge, TAYLOR, District Judge, and DARR, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The complaint filed in the District Court contained two counts, one of which was based on express contract and the other on quasi contract. In substance, plaintiffs' claim was that they submitted to defendant in confidence certain alleged new and novel ideas, suggestions, devices and inventions relating to improvements in the bodies of automobiles in an effort to induce defendant to purchase the same and that defendant wrongfully appropriated them without...

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