Boardman v. Meriden Britannia Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for an injunction against the use of certain labels and numbers claimed to be a violation of the petitioners’ trade-mark, being the same case heard by this court on a reservation for advice and reported 35 Conn.
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Petition for an injunction against the use of certain labels and numbers claimed to be a violation of the petitioners’ trade-mark, being the same case heard by this court on a reservation for advice and reported 35 Conn. R., 402. In accordance with the advice there given the Superior Court granted the prayer of the petition and passed a decree enjoining the respondents as follows:— “ And now this court doth find the facts set forth in said report to be true, as found by said committee, and, by the advice of said Supreme Court of Errors, doth therefore order and decree that the said Meriden…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The respondents seek to obtain a reversal of the decree in this case on the ground that it is “ so vague and ambiguous that it is void for uncertainty.”
The decree restrains the respondents “ from selling or offering for sale any britannia spoons manufactured by any other parties than said petitioners, in packages having thereon any label prepared in imitation of any of the said labels of the petitioners, like those used by the respondents, as described in said petition; and from selling or offering for sale any such britannia spoons in packages with labels and numbers thereon so nearly like…
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