Sheldon Hat Blocking Co. v. Eickmeyer Hat Blocking Co.

The complaint in this action charges, that certain assignments, made on the behalf of the plaintiff, and executed by Finn, the president of the plaintiff to the defendant corporation, of divers letters patent and licenses, on the 5th day of May 1873, were fraudulently made, in pursuance of secret and fraudulent negotiations, between himself and officers of the' defendant corporation, and without the knowledge or consent of his co-trustees, and in furtherance of efforts on the part of the defendant corporation to obtain and acquire the patents and property of the plaintiff; that the acts of…