American Agricultural Chemical Co. v. Moore

CLAYTON, District Judge.

The jurisdiction of this court is invoked by the plaintiff, a Connecticut corporation, to restrain the defendant, individually and as the commissioner of agriculture and industries of the state of Alabama, from an alleged arbitrary and unwarranted refusal of such commissioner to permit the registration of the plaintiff’s trade-mark or trade-name used in the sale of commercial fertilizer.

Summarizing the bill of complaint, the plaintiff is, and for many years ‘has been, engaged in the manufacture of commercial fertilizer composed of various ingredients appropriate and…