Willis v. O'Connell
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Equity. Suit by G. E. Willis against John C. O’Connell. On motion for preliminary injunction, and on motion by defendant to dismiss.
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY D. CLAYTON, District Judge.
This bill is brought by Willis, a citizen of Georgia, against O’Connell, a citizen of Alabama, for injunction to restrain him from publishing in his newspaper comments and criticisms reflecting upon the plaintiff, upon a proprietary medicine and the business of plaintiff in selling the same, upon the testimonials commending the efficacy of the medicine, and upon the authors of such testimonials.
The plaintiff has the exclusive distributing agency in Alabama and five other Southern states of the Cooper Medicine Company, an Ohio corporation, engaged in the…
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