Fairfield v. Lowry
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 12, 1909, and amended on November 22,1909, seeking to restrain the defendant Marion Smith Lowry from conducting the insurance business until August 12, 1912, from imparting information about or otherwise hindering the plaintiff in obtaining such a business sold by her to him, and from in any way interfering with the conduct of such business by the plaintiff, also seeking to restrain the defendant Edward F. Lowry from in…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on November 12, 1909, and amended on November 22,1909, seeking to restrain the defendant Marion Smith Lowry from conducting the insurance business until August 12, 1912, from imparting information about or otherwise hindering the plaintiff in obtaining such a business sold by her to him, and from in any way interfering with the conduct of such business by the plaintiff, also seeking to restrain the defendant Edward F. Lowry from in any way interfering with the business of insurance purchased by the plaintiff from Marion Smith Lowry and from…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
The plaintiff does not deny that upon the findings made at the hearing his bill was rightly dismissed. His *358contention is that the right to use the names 65 Henry A. Smith,” “ Henry A. Smith & Co.” and “ Marion Smith Lowry ” in carrying on the insurance business, did pass to him by the agreement between himself and Mrs. Lowry, and that the defendants have no right to use those names in such business; and also that Mrs. Lowry is bound not to compete with him in that business, and not to solicit for herself or any other person the patronage of her former customers or of the former customers of…
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