In Re Bott

The question for the determination of this court may be stated as follows:

In an action brought by a merchandising corporation against another corporation and certain of its officers, engaged in the same line of business in the same city, to recover the value of merchandise which plaintiff corporation claims was stolen from it by certain of its former employees who left its employ and thereafter organized the defendant corporation, became officers of, and engaged in selling for, the defendant corporation the same types of merchandise as sold by the plaintiff corporation, may a notary public as…