Mossler v. Jacobs
Appellate Court of Illinois
Injunction, to restrain the use of a trade name. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. John Gibbons, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1896.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
This was an action to restrain the use of the words “ Six Big Tailors ” in such a way as to infringe upon the rights of the complainants under their trade name of “ Six Little Tailors.”
Flo person is entitled to represent his wares as being the goods of another man, or articles of his manufacture as having been made by another, and no person is by the law permitted to use any mark, sign, symbol, name, device or other means, whereby he makes a false representation, or deceives as to his own goods, or as to the goods of another, or whereby, without himself making a false representation to a…
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- Eggers v. HinkCalifornia Supreme Court · 1883
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