Baker v. Dieterich

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bergen, J.

The defendant was held to bail in an action brought jointly by plaintiffs for a debt alleged to have been fraudulently incurred. The order was set aside by a justice of the Supreme Court and plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court to' have it reviewed. The affidavits on which the order was based show that defendant had invented a machine for producing picture films, and entered into an agreement, December 2d, 1921, with the plaintiffs and Chester N. Stevens, *71by which, in order to meet the expenses of exploitation and securing patents, the…