Engle v. Manchester
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
3 Tearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia granting motions by the defendants to a bill in equity to vacate the service of process upon them in the cause.
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3 Tearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia granting motions by the defendants to a bill in equity to vacate the service of process upon them in the cause. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: June 1, 1916, George S. Engle filed his bill in the supreme court of the District of Columbia against Arthur P. Manchester and Harry M. Spooner, in which it was alleged that for many years plaintiff had been engaged in making and perfecting a certain invention of a primary electrical battery, which he describes, and that for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
The question involved in this ease is the privilege of the party who was served with civil process while in voluntary attendance upon a judicial hearing wherein his interests were involved. *228Plaintiff and defendants jointly were rival applicants for a patent for the invention described in the bill, and the interference had been duly declared in the Patent Office between them. The defendants, residing in Rhode Island, were in attendance xipon the taking of the testimony of the plaintiff before an Examiner at the time of the service of this process in the city of Washington. Plaintiff was…
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