Gillespie & Company of New York, Inc., and Gillespie & Company of Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Weyerhaeuser Company

The narrow question which we find dis-positive of this case, is whether the District Court abused its discretion in denying a preliminary injunction.

Because of the narrowness of the issue, and because we seek to avoid any implication of our own views of what a plenary trial might show to be the facts or what are the ultimate conclusions of law, we shall be brief in describing the controversy as it now appears on the basis of the evidence so far taken in the trial court.

Weyerhaeuser Company, defendant-appellee, among its activities, manufactures milk-container blanks used by dairies. Gillespie…