Davis v. Wynne

W. D. Davis instituted this suit against W. P. Wynne for specific performance of two alleged contracts to convey to him an undivided one-tenth interest in and to a certain patent right covering an invention originated and owned by the defendant, which consisted of an attachment for converting motor-propelled vehicles into tractors. As a basis for his prayer for a temporary writ of injunction pending final trial on the merits of the case, it was alleged that the defendant was proposing to assign the patent right to other persons in hostility to plaintiff's rights, and thereby to defeat the…