Legal Opinion
United States Tobacco Co. v. McGreenery
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided March 23, 1906No. 209PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill in equity to restrain unfair competition which is alleged to arise from the defendant’s imitation of the complainant’s paper label or wrapper used to make up packages of cut plug tobacco. The packages are of the same size. The paper is of the same quality and (lark red color. The lettering is gilt, and the conspicuous words are printed in much the same type. One large face of the complainant’s wrapper (which I shall call the front, though it may be taken indifferently as the front or the back) has printed at. its top the words “Central Union,” placed one…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Columbia Mill Co. v. AlcornSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Coats v. Merrick Thread Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Kann v. Diamond Steel Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
- P. Lorillard Co. v. PeperCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
- G. W. Cole Co. v. American Cement & Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1904
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Southern California Fish Co. v. White Star Canning Co.California Court of Appeal · 1920
- Thomas Kerfoot & Co. v. Louis K. Liggett Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1933
- American Tobacco Co. v. Globe Tobacco Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan · 1911
- Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. v. Houston Ice & Brewing Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1917
- Taylor v. BostickCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1924
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