Booth v. Stutz Motor Car Co.

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

The District Court, on motion of defendants (appellees), dismissed, without opinion, plaintiff’s (appellant’s) bill for want of equity.

The averments of the bill show that plaintiff was the owner of a new and useful device, upon the discovery and perfection of which he had spent years of time and much money; that defendants, by fraudulently pretending and representing that they desired to make careful investigation of the device with the idea of buying or otherwise obtaining, the right to use it, and under the promise that they would keep all disclosures strictly secret and…