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SCHUPPENHAUER v. PEOPLE GAS LIGHT & COKE CO.

No. 59663.

30 Ill. App.3d 607 (1975)

332 N.E.2d 583

WILLIAM E. SCHUPPENHAUER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PEOPLES GAS LIGHT & COKE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

July 3, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Nelson, of Griffin, Guinan & Griffin, of Chicago, for appellant.

Karl Berolzheimer, of Ross, Hardies, O'Keefe, Babcock & Parsons, of Chicago, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

Mr. JUSTICE DEMPSEY delivered the opinion of the court:

In 1963 William Schuppenhauer filed an action for an accounting against the People Gas Light & Coke Company, for the company's use of cost-saving ideas allegedly disclosed by him in confidence 30 years earlier to company officers pursuant to an understanding that if his suggestions were employed by the company he would be paid an agreed proportion of the resulting savings. The cause...

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