State of Delaware v. Klein

Seitz, Chancellor:

This is the decision on an attachment or rule to show cause why defendant should not be held in criminal contempt for an alleged violation of a consent permanent injunction dated September 22, 1954. While the State is technically the plaintiff I shall refer to the original plaintiff, General Electric, when using “plaintiff” herein. The judgment restrained, inter alia, the selling of fair traded merchandise produced or distributed by the plaintiff under the trademark “General Electric” at prices less than the prices stipulated in plaintiff’s fair trade contracts as then…