State ex rel. Paige v. Goeke

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing complaint for failure to show that contract involving non-novel idea was supported by consideration
• dismissing complaint for failure to show that contract involving non-novel idea was supported by consideration
• denying recovery to a plaintiff claiming he provided valuable in formation, because his idea to increase profits by increasing prices “was not new, it was not original,” and was simply “call[ingj attention to a fact already known”
• “No person can by contract monopolize an idea that is common and general to the whole world.”
• idea to increase manufacturer profits by increasing wholesale price to retailers without increase in retail price merely a variant or derivative of an obvious or commonly known concept

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