Little Tavern Shops, Inc. v. Davis

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Little Tavern Shops, Inc., a Kentucky corporation, the owner and operator of food shops in the City of Baltimore, sought, as plaintiff in the District Court, to enjoin the use of the words “Little Tavern” in connection with a drinking saloon and eating place conducted by the defendant in that city.

The corporation has been operating eating shops in Baltimore and elsewhere, now numbering thirteen in various parts of that city, for the past twelve years under its corporate name. These shops are small in size and of a distinctive kind of architecture. They conspicuously…