Ball v. Siegel
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Gardner, Judge, presiding. This was a hill in equity, in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Thomas H. Ball, Herman Prenzlauer and Simon Florsheim, against Ferdinand Siegel, Henry Siegel, Emanuel Siegel and Gustav Schilling, to enjoin the use of appellants’ trade mark, adopted to designate corsets manufactured by them, and also to enjoin appellees from copying hand-bills, labels, advertisements, and circulars and bills. The bill alleges that…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The words, “health-preserving, ” preceding the word, “corset, ” beyond all question but describe a quality of the corset, —i. e., an effect which its use will produce,—and can not, therefore, be employed as a trade mark. Amoskeag Manf. Co. v. Spear, 2 Sandf. C. C. 599; Canal Co. v. Clark, 13 Wall. 311; Manufacturing Co. v. Francis, 101 U. S. (11 Otto,) 51; Gilman v. Hunnewel et al. 122 Mass. 122; Larrabee v. Lewis, 67 Ga. 561; Royal Baking Powder Co. v. Sherrell, 93 N. Y. 331. Many of the cases illustrating this principle will be found collected, in Freeman’s note to Partridge v. Menck, 47…
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- King v. BronsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
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