Benkert v. Feder

This is a suit for the infringement of a trade-mark “C. Benkert & Son,” used by the plaintiff, doing business under that name, as the successor in interest of a Philadelphia firm of which he was an original member, engaged in the manufacture and sale of boots and shoes, upon which the trade-mark was stamped. There is no doubt in my mind, as to the right of the plaintiff as an original owner in part, and successor in interest to the business to this trade-mark acquired by many years use, (more than a third of a century,) and so generally known as to have almost become a part of the public…