Vaughn

This is an appeal hy the defendant from a judgment annulling a contract which had been entered into between the parties hereto. J. L. Vaughn, being the inventor of certain' improvements on an automatic phonograph, embodying in particular a new invention for automatically changing the steel needle used for producing the sound from the records, desired to perfect and patent this device, and for this purpose entered into a contract, on June 22, 1916, with Charles Fey, by which contract Fey agreed to advance money to pay for all of the materials required for the building of a model and to furnish shop-room for the building of the same, and to pay to Vaughn twenty dollars each week for a period of ninety days from the date of the agreement, to cover the time Vaughn would be engaged in working upon the model, and also to advance a sufficient sum to cover the cost of securing a patent in the United States upon the said invention, to be applied for when the working model was completed and perfected. In consideration of this agreement by Fey, Vaughn agreed to transfer to Fey a one-half interest in any patent which , he might obtain in the United States upon his said invention.

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