W. & J. Sloane, Inc. v. Kaplan Furniture Co.

COOPER, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to enjoin defendants from marketing and displaying furniture manufactured by Kaplan under the name “Beacon Hill Collection.” Plaintiff claims the exclusive right to sell this concededly outstanding quality furniture by virtue of a 1959 oral agreement with defendant Kaplan, by the terms of which, it is asserted, plaintiff was given exclusive rights in plaintiff’s “trade areas”— specifically, New York, Washington, D. C. and San Francisco.

The gravamen of plaintiff’s action is the granting by Kaplan, of the exclusive use to plaintiff of the name “Beacon…