Beech-Nut Packing Co. v. P. Lorillard Co.

LYNCH, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a New York corporation engaged in the manufacturing and selling of food products, complains that the defendant, a New Jersey corporation engaged in the manufacturing and selling of tobacco, has damaged the plaintiff’s reputation and good will by willfully and fraudulently adopting the plaintiff’s trade-mark “Beech-Nut” as a label for tobacco products, for and on account of which the plaintiff prays an accounting for past damages and an injunction enjoining the defendant from further use thereof. The defendant, admitting the use complained of on certain…