Harley & Lund Corporation v. Murray Rubber Co.

(after stating the facts as above). There can be spelled out of the complaint a statement that the defendants induced the disclosure of the plaintiff’s secrets upon the false representation that they intended to make a contract. This would fall within the decision of the Third Circuit in Rogers v. Virginia Carolina Chemical Co. (C. C. A.) 149 F. 1, and that of the English Court of Appeal in Edgington v. Fitzmauriee, L. R. 29 Ch. Div. 459. The theory is that a man’s state of mind is as much an existing fact as anything else, and so susceptible of true or false description. We had the point…