Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass'n v. Piza

The complainant, a corporation doing business at St. Louis, Missouri, has for many years been accustomed to export its beer in bottles with a label bearing the words, “St. Louis Lager Beer.” It had acquired a considerable market for its product in Soutli America and Panama. During this time there were many oilier manufacturers and vendors of lager beer at St. Louis, but so far as appears none of them had an export trade, and none of them were accustomed to use labels with tlie words “St. Louis Lager Beer” printed upon them. The defendant is a shipper of beer at New York city, and a competitor…