Matthews v. Puffer

The defendant Alvin D. Puffer heretofore made a motion to this court, founded on affidavits, to set aside the service made on him of the subpoena to appear and answer herein. The suit is one for the infringement of letters patent. The motion was opposed and denied by an order made December 30, 1881. The reasons set out in the motion papers, as grounds for the motion, were that the service was made upon the said defendant while he was attending the examination of witnesses in the office of the counsel for the plaintiff herein, in the city of New York, in a'cause of interference then pending…