Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-03-11
SUIT FOR 100000
Casein Company Alleges Secret
Formulas Were Taken Away
J Idge Barker, in Boston, Has Issued
Temporary Injunction Against the
Alden speare's Sons Company.

Alden Speare's Sons Company.
The exclusive announcement in The
Phoenix last week of the bringing of a
suit for 100000 damages by the Casein
Company of America and the Water Paint
Company of America against the Alden
Spearcs Sons Company and others was
read with great interest here. where the
changes i'm the Casein company's office
have been subjects Of discussion several
weeks. \ bill of equity has been brought
in the supreme judicial court for Suf-
folk county. Mass. The plaintiffs COM
plain that early in the winter the Alden
Speares Sons Company of Boston en-
tered into conspiracy with Gushing
Adams and \. D. Charles. formerly pur-
chasing agent of the corporation at Bel
lows Falls, to injure and defraud the
plaintiffs and take away from them their
business and uadc and that i'm further
ance of the conspiracy the Speare's COM
panY made a contract with Adams and
Charles to enter the employ of the
Speares company. under n profit sharing
arrangement, which contract was made
while Adams and Charles were still i'm the
employ of the plaintiffs and was kept Sc
cret from the plaintiffs; that on Jan 18th
and without any previous notice. Adams
and Charles resigned their positions in
the plaintiffs companies and took from
the companies at Bellows Falls all the
correspondence, data. memoranda. so-
cret recipes and formulas and samples
and shipped all the same t. the Speare's
company at Boston, and Immediately en-
tered the employ of the Speare's com
pany and the latter company then at once
advertised to the trade that they had
gone into the casen business.
The plaintiffs charge that the defend
ants are using this private correspond
ence and these secret rules and formulas
in getting the trade away from the plain
tiffs and so injure the plaintiffs with the
trade and by means of it are destroying
the plaintiffs business and taking it over
to the Speare's company. The plaintiffs
aleEe that it has already been of a.
least 100000 damage to them. \ ten.
norary injunction has Door issued by judge
Barker restraining the defendants from
manufacturing any of the products which
the plaintiffs make and from any con-
tracts with any PARTIES concerning whom
any information is obtainable in the pa
Iers and correspondence which Adams and
Charles took from the plaintiffs and de-
livered to the Spcare's company
Judge Alloee and c. C. Fits of Brattle-
boro are counsel for the defendants
Tie writ of injunction restraining the
respondents, Cushing Adams E. Raw
Spear". a. d. Charles and the Alden
Speare Sons company. reads as follows.
we, therefore, in consideration of the
premises, do stictlv enjoin and command
YOU the said respondents and all and
every the persons before named to de
sst ard refrain from YOU and each of
you, your attorneys servants agents
employees and workmen, and all persons
under your authority. direction, or con-
troll, absolutely from in any way using
any Of the private OF secret rules rec
1pes formulas. data, reports. methods.
correspondence, contracts, memoranda
samples, or any articles or papers taken
by the defendants Adams ard Charles
from the Plaintiffs as set forth i'm said
Dill OF complaint for any purpose what
ever, and from using any of the same or
copies of any OF the same for the pur-
pose of advertising in any manner. or
OF manufacturing or selling any of the
articles or products manufactured by the
plaintins at the Bellows Falls plant and
elsewhere, as set forth in said bill and
from using or cOpVing or making imita-
tons OF said papers, Documents and
samples, and from furnishing to any per
son or persons any copies thereof or any
information concerning the same, and
nom permitting any person or ersons to
read or inspect the same or to take or
make any copy or notation thereof, and
from soliciting or taking any orders. or
business, or trade from any customer OF
the Plaintiffs concerning which or whom
the information is given by or Obtain.
able Irom the documents ana papers re-
ferred to IN said hill Of complaint. and
from undertaking or making contracts
with or purchases from any person or
persons with whom the plaintiff. the
CaSeln Company of America had ION