Diedrich v. People

To the Hay term, 1882, of the Circuit Court, the Ruttan Hanufacturing Company, and Horace W. Soper, Clinton P. Soper and Charles B. Rogers, the three latter composing the firm of Soper & Rogers, filed a bill in chancery, the principal object of which was to restrain the appellant, Nicholas Died rich, Sr., and David S. Hayes, who were made defendants thereto, from manufacturing a certain style of furnaces known as the Ruttan furnaces. The right to the relief prayed was based upon an alleged agreement between Soper and Rogers on the one part and the appellant of the other, by which he had sold…