Wolf Bros. v. Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
W. H. MUNGER, District Judge.
The record in this case discloses that complainant is a corporation, manufacturing women’s shoes, at Cincinnati, Ohio; that in 1896, George E. Dana & Co. were manufacturers of shoes in said city, and adopted as a trade-mark *414for women’s shoes manufactured by them the words “The American Girl.” In May, 1898, a copartnership under the name of Wolf Bros. & Co. acquired said business and trade-mark, and in 1899 said Wolf Bros. & Co. adopted and used in advertising and selling its American Girl shoes the catch phrase, “A shoe as good as its name,” and used, in…
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