Candee, Swan & Co. v. Deere & Co.

This was a bill in chancery, exhibited in the Rock Island circuit court by John Deere and others, claiming to be manufacturers of plows at Moline, in this State, known by the trade and by the community, wherever sold and used, as the “ Moline Plow,” and against Candee, Swan & Co. other manufacturers of the same implement, at the same place. The object of the bill was to enjoin defendants from pirating their trade mark, to their injury, and from making, branding and selling their plows as the Moline plow, and for an account.

The bill alleges that complainants have, at great expense, and through…