Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. v. Wolf Brothers & Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT C’OURT OF APPEALS FOR THE' • EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve rights of the owner of a trademark and the liability of one infringing it, and other questions, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
Respondent, an Ohio corporation engaged in the manufacture of shoes, filed its bill of complaint on January 29, 1906, in the Circuit Court'of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, against petitioner, a Missouri corporation engaged in the same business, seeking an injunction to restrain infringement of an alleged trade-mark for shoes consisting of the words “The American Girl,” by the use of the words “American Lady” as a colorable imitation, and also unfair competition in trade, carried on by means that included the use of the latter words; and praying an…
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