Perkins v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Ottmar Mergenthaler was, in the: year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for many years prior thereto', conducting a machine shop and engaged in the: work; of inventing and perfecting machinery and appliances in the City of Baltimore.

On October 10th of that year, Mergenthaler being in bad health and wishing to arrange his affairs in contemplation of death, formed a corporation by the name of the Ott Mergenthaler O'ompany to1 purchase and acquire his business in said city and to acquire and hold his interest “in any and all inventions, patents and patent rights, and all royalties and monies…