R. J. Horner & Co. v. Lawrence

Each of the four separate defenses, to which the plaintiff demurs, is, in my opinion, insufficient. The action is brought to protect the plaintiff corporation in its right to the exclusive use of the name “Flint’s Fine Furnture,” which right it acquired through the purchase of the good-will, trade-name and trade-mark of the George 0. Flint Company under a sale in proceedings for the dissolution of that corporation. For a first separate defense these defendants set up a conspiracy upon the part of several persons named, not parties, having for its object the sacrificing of the assets of the…