Mutual Export & Import Corp. v. Mutual Export & Import Corp. of America
District Court, S.D. New York
Irt Equity. Suit by the Mutual Export & Import Corporation against the Mutual Export & Import Corporation of America to restrain the defendant from the use of its name.
1Opinion of the Court
A.UGUSTUS N. HAND, District Judge.
The defendant incorporated February 10,'1916, under the laws of Delaware, with the object of doing an import and export business in the state of New York. Tt entered upon this business in New York immediately after its incorporation. The complainant incorporated in New York on. March 10, 1916, and engaged in a similar business, without any knowledge of the *138prior incorporation of the defendant in Delaware. Each corpoi'ation has built up a substantial business in New York and has an office there, and each has acted throughout in good faith. The similarity of…
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