Gaines & Co. v. Sroufe

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity brought by the complainant, a Kentucky corporation, against the respondents, citizens of the state of California, for the alleged infringement of a trade-mark. The bill alleges, upon information and belief, that the business of distilling and selling whisky now operated by the complainant corporation was conducted in the year 1867 and thereafter by the firm or partnership of W. A. Gaines & Co., who acquired the business, property, trade-marks, good will, and distillery of the pre*966ceding firm of Gaines, Berry & Co.; that among the trade-marks…