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BURWELL v. AMERICAN COKE & CHEMICAL CO.

No. 1720.

7 F.2d 435 (1925)

BURWELL et al. v. AMERICAN COKE & CHEMICAL CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 7, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Doerfler, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Leon V. Walker, of Portland, Me. (Verrill, Hale, Booth & Ives, of Portland, Me., on the brief), for plaintiffs in error.

Peter B. Nelson, of Defrees, Buckingham & Eaton, of Chicago, Ill. (Leonard A. Pierce, of Cook, Hutchinson & Pierce, of Portland, Me., on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

In this case the presiding judge directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of all the evidence, which is assigned as error.

The plaintiffs, five in number, organized in 1917 the Western Reserve Chemical Company for the purpose of manufacturing chemicals by a secret process devised by one of them, Arthur W. Burwell. In this process the electrolytic method was used, by which acids once used for oxidizing purposes could be used...

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