Menefee

(after stating the facts as above). The government, upon trial, identified and offered in evidence copies of six patents and twelve applications for patents for mechanical devices, all but four of which became the property of the United States Cashier Company, and four of which were assigned to the International Money Machine Company, an Indiana corporation. It appeared that about January, 1914, defendant Menefee and the other officers and directors of the Cashier Company made an arrangement by which the Cashier Company transferred to the International Money Machine Company substantially all its assets in Oregon, and entered into a contract with the International Company and the promoiers thereof by which the Cashier Company received SO per cent, of the. paid-up stock of the International Company; the object of the Cashier Company having been, apparently, to continue its business in Indiana. There was evidence tending to show that the assignments made on the applications and patents by certain persons named in the evidence were transferred to the International Money Machine Company as part of the assets of the Cashier Company. But it was shown that, when it was published in Oregon…