Bell v. Locke
New York Court of Chancery
This case came before the court upon an order for the defendant to show cause why an injunction should not issue, restraining him from printing, publishing or circulating a newspaper under the name of the New Era.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The allegation in the complainant’s bill is, that the defendant has assumed the name of the complainant’s newspaper, for the fraudulent purpose of imposing upon the public and supplanting him in the good will of his established paper, by simulating the name and dress thereof; with the intent to cause it to be understood and believed by the community that the defendant’s newspaper was the same as the complainant’s, and thereby to injure the circulation of the latter. If this were in fact so, I should have no difficulty in making this order absolute. For although the business of…
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