Original La Tosca Social Club v. La Tosca Social Club
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal (specially allowed) by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia «enjoining, pendente lite, the use of a trade or business name.
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Hearing on an appeal (specially allowed) by the defendant from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia «enjoining, pendente lite, the use of a trade or business name. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This ease is brought here on special appeal allowed under § 7 of the act of Congress of February 9, 1893. The appeal is from an interlocutory order of the supreme court of this Disr trict, dated 23d day of July, 1903. By the order appealed from the appellant, the Original La Tosca Social Club, the defendant in the court below, was enjoined, until the final…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
The name employed by both the plaintiff and defendant would seem to be purely arbitrary and fanciful. The name “La Tosca” has no application to, and conveys no idea of the nature and objects of, the social clubs formed, that we can perceive. Whether it was adopted from the geological name descriptive of the pampean rock found in South America, and which name, *104though local in its origin, has been given general currency by scientists, or from the grand opera “La Tosca” by Puccini, or some other source, we are not informed; and it is of no very material consequence in this case. Por though the…
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