Freeland v. Burdick

— The plaintiff as owner of the premises and building heretofore known as the Park Hotel at Houston, Missouri, seeks to enjoin the defendant, a former proprietor of the hotel business' there conducted, from using the name Park Hotel to designate a new hotel close by which defendant now owns or controls, The trial court denied any relief and dismissed plaintiff’s bill.

The evidence showed that many years ago this property, now owned by plaintiff, was used as a hotel and took the name and has ever since been known as the Park Hotel. If not originally built for a hotel it is adapted to that…