Doll v. Purple Shoppe

The plaintiffs, Harriet E. Doll, Adolph Doll, J. Frank Doll, and John H. Ryder, are co-partners doing business under the name of Norm Company and are engaged in the preparation of advertising matter consisting of a series of advertisements for use by merchants and others in advertising their businesses through newspapers and other media and in the sale of such use to merchants for stated periods. Their place of business is in New York. The defendant, Purple Shoppe, Inc., is a corporation engaged, at Jefferson City, Missouri, as a merchant in the sale of ladies' ready-to-wear goods.

On October…