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FROEDGE v. WALDEN

624 S.W.2d 833 (1981)

D.T. FROEDGE, Appellant-Petitioner, v. Hon. C.R. WALDEN, Judge Barren Circuit Court, and Southern Explosives Corporation, Intervenor, Appellees-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

November 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Joseph Clarke, Danville, Shelley T. Riherd, Glasgow, for appellant.

Uhel O. Barrickman, Richardson, Barrickman & Dickinson, Glasgow, David S. Stallard, Wood, Herron & Evans, Cincinnati, for appellees.

OPINION AND ORDER

The sole question presented is whether a writ of prohibition should issue against a circuit judge to prevent him from enforcing an order directing a litigant to disclose information made in a patent application. The Court of Appeals denied the writ. We reverse.

In May of 1980 Southern Explosives Corporation filed a suit in the Barren Circuit Court alleging ownership of certain patent rights applied for by Froedge, and claiming various damages...

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