Clark v. Ætna Iron Works

This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court, dismissing a bill filed by the appellants, the principal object of which is to prevent the appellees from using, as a name of business, the words, “ JEtna Iron Works,” on the ground that the appellants had acquired the right to the use of those words as a “ trade name,” long before the appellees above named were incorporated.

The words import a corporation; being not the names of persons, but of an entity capable of business. Supreme Lodge v. Zuhlke, 30 Ill. App. 98; Woolf v. City Steamboat Co., 7 M. G. & S. 103; 62 E. C. L. 101.

It is…