Hanover Manufacturing Co. v. Ed Hanover Trailers, Inc.

HAMILTON, Justice.

Hanover Manufacturing Company, the petitioner, appeals from a judgment by the Waco Court of Civil Appeals denying damages or a permanent injunction against the use of the name “Hanover” by Ed Hanover Trailers, Inc., in the business of manufacturing and selling trailers.

Edward Hanover was a welder and has made and sold stock trailers in Bryan, Texas, since 1955. He operated as “Ed Hanover Trailers,” and for a time as “LifeSaver Trailers,” until 1963. On February 11, 1963, Hanover and Ruble Langston and others organized the Hanover Mfg., Co., Inc., a corporation to build and…