The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-07
WALKER SUES TYPEWRITER TRUST


 INVENTOR OF NOTE SEEKS DAM
 AGES OF s1O,OO0 FOR BREACH
 OF HIS CONTRACT-PERF
 ED MANY INVALUABLE PAT
 ENTS - HOW THE TRUST
 TREATED HIM.
 Charles w. Walker, 1347 Fairfield avenue, an inventor well known in the world of typewriter manufacture, brought action today against the Union Typewriter Company, better known as the typewriter trust, in which he claims $1O,000 damages for breach of contract and $400 alleged to be due on a bill.
 He has retained the legal firm of Spafford & Mallette. The papers were served today.
 MT. Walker is the inventor of the new visible Yost machine, now being put upon the market, and has made many valuable improvements in writ ing machines for the Union Type writer Co.,, since his connection with them, some fifteen years ago. He is also the inventor of the first ball bearing typewriter carriage, and a suit now on between the Union Type writer Co. and L. c. Smith Bros. of Syracuse, N. Y., is the indirect cause of the present action.
 A few years ago the Union Type writer Go. commenced suit against L. c. Smith Bros, because they were using the Walker invention on their machine. MT. Walker invented this some where about 1887, years before he was connected with the Union Typewriter Co., and in order to get his testimony, model and other things bearing on the subject, the Typewrit- CT Go. made him promises which they repudiated when the testimony was all in.
 In 1907 MT. Walker, when called upon by the company's attorneys to testify, refused until certain requests that he had made were granted whereupon he was invited to New York to interview some of the com pany's officers, and there the mattel was satisfactorily adjusted, and MT Walker, in good faith, gave his testi- mony. The company, however, from that time up to last January had fail. ed to live up to their part of the ar. rangement. Last January MT. Walker was again asked to give his testimony and refused, because the company had not done as agreed. MT. Dodge, the company's attorney then advised him to see those in authority and have the
 matter adjusted. Again, in order te get MT. Walkers testimony, the com. pany explained that on account of the panic in 1907, they did not fulfill the agreement, and he was given clearly to understand, that if he would give the testimony everything would be al right and what he desired would be granted. Upcn the strength of this he went ahead and gave his testi mony, and now having given it, the company denies the whole business refuses to give him his model, made years before he was in their employ and refuse to deliver to him a draw 1 ing of the first front stroke machine l ever made.
 MT. Walker, not being under any contract at the time of the buildinf of the new Yost visible, will alst claim an interest in that machine, anG can readily substantiate the fact tha I the vital points in it were invented 1 by him before he was connected witt the Union Typewriter Co
 The firm of Spafford and Mal1ett, have spent good deal of time pre- I pairing this case and will go som, 1 years back showing by case O l Walker against Williams, in wnicl i Walker won, some of the methods o l the Typewriter trust. l MT. Walkers many friends in thi city hope to see him successful in thi suit, and are looking ahead with som curiosity to learn more of the meth
 ods of the Typewriter Trust.