Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. v. Hansen

(orally). I have examined the affidavits, as well as the authorities, submitted by counsel in this case, and am prepared to announce my conclusion. I believe it is the general practice in this court to reduce such conclusions to writing and file the same for the benefit of those interested. This, however, is a practice in which 1 indulge but little, and in this case I have nothing prepared not even notes. What I have to say will be orally stated and in such order as occurs to me as I proceed.

In this case, as in most cases of the kind, I find that the defendants, by affidavits and otherwise,…