Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Power City Brewery, Inc.

KNIGHT, District Judge.

This is a motion for a preliminary injunction in a trade-mark infringement and unfair competition suit. The plaintiff is the manufacturer of the well-known “Budweiser” beer and ale. It has been engaged in this business in St. Louis, Missouri, continuously for upwards of eighty years. Its products are, and for many years have been, sold in large quantities throughout the United States and other countries. For more than sixty years it has used the registered trade-mark “Budweiser” upon its product and in its extensive advertising.

The defendant was incorporated in 1933.…