Weller v. Pennsylvania R.

(orally). Several suits are pending in the circuit court, in which Simon P. Weller and others are complainants and different railroad companies are defendants. They are suits for infringement of a patent, and motions have been filed to quash the marshal’s return upon the summons issued in the several cases. These motions were discussed before the court a few days back, and they are now to be decided.

Some of the motions were made and are put upon the ground that the service was not according to the statute of this state relating to service upon corporations, and others were upon the ground…