Harryman v. Harryman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

This is an appeal from a’ judgment restraining the defendants from using the firm name of Harryman Bros, after the dissolution of the previously existing firm of George Harryman & Bros., consisting of all the individual parties to this action, who are brothers.

In the year 1864 John G. Harryman, the father of these brothers, established a broom-corn business in Baltimore, Md., which he continued until his death in the year 1893, at which time the name of Harryman had become generally known to the trade-in Baltimore and in Illinois where broom…