HOOK v. HOOK & ACKERMAN, INC.


375 Pa. 278 (1953)

Hook, Exrx., v. Hook & Ackerman, Inc., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry Price, with him Charles L. Cunningham and Stonecipher & Cunningham, for appellant.

George L. Eynon, with him Clarence H. Clasper and Shoemaker & Eynon, for appellee.

Before STERN, C.J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, CHIDSEY, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HORACE STERN, November 9, 1953:

This is a suit in equity for an accounting for royalties allegedly due under a license agreement covering a patent for heater boilers.

The agreement was entered into in 1945 between Hook and Ackerman, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, and Harold S. Ackerman and plaintiff's decedent, C. Howard Hook. The agreement declared that the individuals, Hook and Ackerman, were the owners each of an undivided...

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