Speakman v. International Pulverizing Corp.

Pee Cueiam.

Defendants appeal from the denial of a motion to strike out the bill of complaint made after answer filed, on the ground that the subject-matter of the bill related to a patent in which “there were no rights in anyone to the invention and no res upon which the decree could operate.” The gravamen of the bill was fraudulent diversion of the assets of American Pulverizing Company to the defendant corporation. It was alleged that an agreement was made whereby inventions to be patented were to be the property of the American Company, and that in violation thereof, these devices had been…