State Ex Rel. Potter v. Maybury

Belators instituted this action by filing a complaint naming as defendants Charles B. Maybury, director of licenses, Ewing D. Colvin, as prosecuting attorney for King county, and John B. Wright, as justice of the peace for Seattle precinct. It was alleged that relator T. Irving Potter was the owner of letters patent granted by the United States of America, covering improvements in refrigerating machinery; that Mr. Potter, for more than two years, had been selling undivided interests in these letters patent under a uniform written agreement, a copy of which was attached to the complaint; that…