Canadian Club Beverage Co. v. Canadian Club Corp.

This suit is to restrain the defendant from using the name “Canadian Club” in the business of bottling and selling ginger ale and other carbonated beverages, from licensing others to use this name in the sale of ginger ale and other beverages, and from using the corporate name “Canadian Club Corporation.” Both parties contend they received title to the trade name through the corporation “William Ireland, Incorporated.” The decisive question is, Did William Ireland, Incorporated in February, 1922, sell to the plaintiff (then called the White Club Beverage Company) its business of bottling and…