Young & Chaffee Furniture Co. v. Chaffee Bros. Furniture Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent; Perkins, J. Bill by the Young & Chaffee Furniture Company against Chaffee Brothers Furniture Company and others to restrain the use of a trade-name. From a decree dismissing the bill, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
In 1896, Robinson J. Young and Guy W. Chaffee formed a copartnership under the firm name of Young & Chaffee Furniture Company, for the purpose of conducting a retail furniture business on Ottawa street in the city of Grand Rapids. The business seems to have quite largely consisted in the sale of furniture and house furnishings on the installment plan, and to have been successful. Defendants, Glenn D., Owen R., and Burt K. Chaffee, were brothers of Guy W. Glenn D. commenced to work for the firm about 1898 or 1899, and Owen R. and Burt K. about 1901 or 1902. None of them had to do with the…
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