Lawrence Manufacturing Co. v. Janesville Cotton Mills
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. The Lawrence Manufacturing Company filed its bill against the Janesville Cotton Mills on the first day of June, 1886, in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Wisconsin) claiming that the letters “ LL ” upon sheetings of the third-class, running four yards to the pound, belonged to it as a trademark, and averring that defendant had' been recently organized, and was…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. The Lawrence Manufacturing Company filed its bill against the Janesville Cotton Mills on the first day of June, 1886, in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Wisconsin) claiming that the letters “ LL ” upon sheetings of the third-class, running four yards to the pound, belonged to it as a trademark, and averring that defendant had' been recently organized, and was in law and in fact the successor of the Janesville Cotton Manufacturing Company, having succeeded to and having…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice Fuller,
after .stating the case, delivered the opiñion of the court.
We have already held in Lawrence Manufacturing Company v. Tennessee Manufacturing Company, ante, 537, that plaintiff is not entitled to the exclusive right to use the letters “LL” as a trademark on sheetings running four yards to the' pound, and that no case was' made there for relief on the ground of actual fraud; and that decision is controlling here so far as those questions can be considered as involved. ' But it is insisted that the appellee, by virtue of a contract with and decree against the Janesville…
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