Munns v. De Nemours
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
[This action was first brought in the state court. It was removed by petition into this court, and was first heard upon application to have the cause docketed.
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[This action was first brought in the state court. It was removed by petition into this court, and was first heard upon application to have the cause docketed. Case No. 9,931.] This was an action [against Dupont de Ne-mours and Peter Bauduy] for a malicious prosecution — 1. In charging the plaintiff before Alderman Keppele in Philadelphia, with haying stolen a brass pounder, and three draughts of machinery; and causing the plaintiff to be imprisoned. 2. In bringing a civil action, and demanding excessive bail. 3. Causing the plaintiff to be indicted in the state .of Delaware, as the receiver…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, Circuit Justice
(charging jury). The plaintiff, having some skill in tne mystery of making gunpowder, engaged with Brown, Page & Co. of Virginia, in November or December, 1808, to superintend a manufac-tory of that article, which they were about to establish near to Richmond; and with a view to obtain more complete information of the art than he then possessed, or to procure workmen, or certain parts of machinery, he ■ came to the northward early in December. On the 9th, he put up at an inn called the Buck, within half a mile, or thereabouts, of the powder manufactory of the defendants, on the Brandywine…
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