Grove

This is an appeal from an order restraining and enjoining Flehr and Swain, a law firm, and Paul D. Flehr, one of its members, from appearing or acting herein as attorneys for appellant in this action and from disclosing any confidential and privileged information acquired during the period from October 1956, to August 1, 1960, when Flehr and his firm served as the attorneys for respondents. The order is collateral to the merits of the case and this opinion is confined to the propriety of said order.

Appellant, Marvin H. Grove, served as president of respondent Grove Company from October 16, 1956, through December 31, 1957. As of January 1, 1958, until his resignation in August 1960, he was the president and a director of Grove Company, and also a director and member of the executive committee of respondent Walworth Company.

This action was commenced by appellant on October 31, 1960, and seeks injunctive relief and damages on account of the manufacture and sale by respondent Grove Company of two products, referred to as “G-5,” a gate valve, and “Valv-Pak,” an assembly of gate valves used in oil well installations. Grove Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Walworth.

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