Legal Opinion
Everett O. Fisk & Co. v. Fisk Teachers' Agency, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 17, 1924No. 6652PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MUNGER, District Judge.
This suit was brought to enjoin the use of a corporate name, the plaintiff claiming it to be its trade-name. The bill was dismissed, and the plaintiff has appealed. The plaintiff below was Everett 0. Fisk & Co., a Massachusetts corporation, claiming a priority to the use of the trade-name, “Fisk Teachers’ Agency.” The defendants were M. E. Shuck and Ms wife and a corporation of Colorado, organized by Mr. Shuck under the name of “The Fisk Teachers’ Agency, Ine.”
From the pleadings and the evidence it appeared that Everett 0. Fisk in 1884 established at Boston, Mass., what…
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