Page v. Page & Shaw Chocolate Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the-county of Suffolk on January 21, 1921, and afterwards amended, by Dudley L. Page and Charles N. Shaw against the corporation, The Page Si Shaw Chocolate Company, the corporation,, Page & Shaw, Incorporated, and Otis E. Dunham.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court for the-county of Suffolk on January 21, 1921, and afterwards amended, by Dudley L. Page and Charles N. Shaw against the corporation, The Page Si Shaw Chocolate Company, the corporation,, Page & Shaw, Incorporated, and Otis E. Dunham. The allegations of the bill as amended in substance were as-follows: For over twenty years previous to the year 1912 the plaintiffs-were copartners doing business under the firm name of Page-Si Shaw, and were engaged during all that period in the manufacture and sale of fine candies in Boston and elsewhere. The…
1Opinion of the CourtDeCourcy, J.
The dominant facts alleged, and to be taken as true for the purpose of the demurrer, are these: Prior to 1912 the plaintiffs were engaged in the manufacture and sale of fine candies, as copartners under the firm name of Page & Shaw. In the dissolution agreement of March 11, 1912, Page released to Shaw his interest in the property and good will of the business, and also “the right to use the name ‘Page’ accompanied by the name ‘Shaw’ as the trade name or trade-mark in the business of the manufacture or sale of candy.” In accordance with the terms of said agreement, Shaw, early in 1912, caused…
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