Meldrum v. Shubert

Opinion.

Holdom, J.

(after stating the foregoing facts):—

At the time complainant adopted the name of “Garrick Theater” to designate Ms place of amusement he had a perfect legal right to do so and in so doing neither interfered, nor trespassed upon the right of any other person in Chicago. It became and was the only “Garrick Theater” in Chicago. His legal right to exclusively use and maintain this name for his theater must be tested under that branch of the law designated as “Trade Marks or Trade Names,” the principles of the former being applicable to the latter and resting for their…