Interstate Distilleries, Inc. v. Sherwood Distilling & Distributing Co.

The contest in the case is one over the use of the name and trade-mark of the former manufacturers of Sherwood Whiskey. In the year 1924, while the Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution and the Act of Congress (National Prohibition Act, 27 U. S. Code Ann. sec. 1 et seq.) prohibiting the manufacture and sale of whiskey for beverage purposes were in force, Louis Mann bought all the whiskey distilled and owned by the Sherwood Distilling Company, an old corporation, and acquired the right to use in the resale of it the name and identifying mark used on that whiskey since 1890. The…