Hostetter v. Adams

The bill alleges that the plaintiffs are, and for 27 years or more have been, partners doing business as Hostetter & Smith, and during that time engaged in making and selling a medicine known as “Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Bitters;” that they have the sole ownership of the good-will, labels, or trade-marks of said bitters; that said bitters have 'acquired a reputation as a safe and valuable medicine; that, in order to designate said bitters as of their own compounding and as genuine, and to prevent fraud by having spurious bitters sold as and for the genuine, they from the beginning…