Coleman, Burden & Warthen Co. v. Dannenberg Co.

It appears from the record, that in'the year 1889 the S. T. Coleman & Burden Company of Macon, Ga., a corporation dealing in shoes, adopted as a trade-mark for its shoes the words “Old Colony Shoe Company, Rockland, Mass.” They sold shoes bearing this trade-mark up to the year 1893, when the company was dissolved. Subsequently a corporation by the name of the Coleman, Burden & Warthen Co.- was incorporated to do a shoe business in Atlanta, Ga. This latter company purchased the trade-mark as one of the assets of the former company. In 1894 and prior to that time, the Dannenberg Co., of Macon,…