BUSSELL v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

No. 16696.

401 F.2d 202 (1968)

John E. BUSSELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

August 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas B. McFadden, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Alan W. Boyd, John W. Houghton, Indianapolis, Ind., George E. Frost, Albert F. Duke, Detroit, Mich., for defendant-appellee.

Before HASTINGS, KILEY and KERNER, Circuit Judges.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action seeking an accounting for wrongful appropriation by General Motors Corporation of plaintiff-appellant's design for a turn signal for motor vehicles. The district court granted defendant-appellee's motion for summary judgment dismissing the action with prejudice, at plaintiff's costs.

Bussell, while a young man of seventeen years, developed a design for a vehicular turn signal...

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