Stamford Foundry Co. v. Thatcher Furnace Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by the Stamford Foundry Company against the Thatcher Furnace -Company. On application for a preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
HAND, District Judge.
In 1910 the complainant terminated the exclusive selling agency of the defendant, as it might properly do. Thereafter for 18 months the defendant continued selling the stoves on the same terms as other local agents. Thereupon dissatisfied with these arrangements, the defendant began to make a ship stove of the same size, of the same appearance, and for the same special use as the complainant’s, merely changing the old and perfectly well established trade-mark, “Shipmate” to “Messmate.” Of course, the imitation is not exact; it never is in such cases. The details of the…
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