C. F. Simmons Medicine Co. v. Mansfield Drug Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal from Chancery Court of Shelby County. W. D. Beard, Ch.
1Opinion of the Court
M. M. Neil, Sp. J.
Prior to the year 1840, one A. Q. Simmons, a farmer in Walker County, Georgia, having come into possession, in some manner not clearly disclosed by the proof, of a secret formula for the making of a valuable liver medicine, Avas accustomed to prepare it in small quantities for use in his own family and in the families of his neighbors. It does not satisfactorily appear that he made any for sale.
In 1840, or about that time, one M. A. Simmons, a young physician, and son of A. Q. Simmons, being at his father’s house, they conceived the idea, of preparing the medicine together…
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