Siegert v. Abbott

The bill in this case was filed by Carlos D. Siegert and others to prevent, by injunction, Cornelius W. Abbott and Cornelius F. Abbott from imitating the complainants’ trademark and labels, in which they wrapped the bottles of their bitters popularly called “Angostura Bitters,” by putting up a compound represented to have similar properties and virtues, in labels so much like those of the complainants, as to be a palpable simulation of them, by which the-public was likely to be, and was, deceived into buying the defendants’ preparation as and for that of the complainants. The bill also prayed…