Clark Thread Co. v. William Clark Co.

Reed, Y. C.

This bill is filed to enjoin the defendant from using certain trade-marks which are alleged to be the property of the complainant, and also for an accounting for the profits diverted from the complainant to the defendant by reason of the previous illegal use by the defendant of such trade-marks.

*659Both complainant and defendant are manufacturers of spool cotton thread. The complainant insists that long before the organization of the William Clark Company (the defendant), the Clark Thread Company (the complainant) had by use acquired an exclusive right to employ, in the sale of its…