Duff v. Hildreth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed January 28, 1903, by a firm of confectioners, proprietors of an unpatented machine for pulling candy, for an alleged violation of their rights by the malicious acts of the defendant. A petition and bond, for removal of the case to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, were filed by the defendant in the Superior Court on January 30, 1903, and were approved by that court.
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Bill in equity, filed January 28, 1903, by a firm of confectioners, proprietors of an unpatented machine for pulling candy, for an alleged violation of their rights by the malicious acts of the defendant. A petition and bond, for removal of the case to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, were filed by the defendant in the Superior Court on January 30, 1903, and were approved by that court. From the order approving the petition and bond the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court approving a bond and a petition of the defend*441ant, for the removal of the case from- the Superior Court to the Circuit CoTirt of the United States. The plaintiffs are described in the bill as citizens of the United States and residents of Pitts-burg in the State of Pennsylvania, and the defendant is described as a citizen of the United States and a resident of Old Orchard in the State of Maine. The petition for the removal of the cause states that the plaintiffs were, at the time of the filing of the bill, and still are citizens of the…
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