DALTON v. BOWERS

No. 52.

287 U.S. 404 (1932)

DALTON ET AL. v. BOWERS, EXECUTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Arnold Lichtig for petitioners.

Assistant Attorney General Youngquist, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, and Messrs. Whitney North Seymour, Sewall Key, and John H. McEvers were on the brief, for respondent.


Mr. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

For twenty-five years petitioner Dalton has busied himself with physical research and invention; he has devised and patented hundreds of articles. A large income from sundry sources has enabled him to lay out considerable sums in connection with his inventions; the inventions brought in no net profit after 1914. During the five years following 1912 he caused the organization...

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