Garcia v. Volpe

Melquíades Garcia was the plaintiff below, and is the plaintiff in error in this court, while Arturo Volpe and his associates, comprising the partnership of Volpe" Bros., were defendants below and are the defendants in error here; they will be referred to in this opinion as plaintiff and defendants, respectively.

The parties plaintiff and defendants were rival dealers in coffees in the city of Laredo. In brief, plaintiff alleged that he conceived the scheme of putting a certain grade of coffee upon the wholesale market under the trade-mark “Cuahtemoe,” which he intended in due course to have…