Adam Hat Stores, Inc. v. Lefco

JONES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal grows out of the plaintiff’s suit to enjoin the defendants from conducting their business under a certain style name or any similar name and for an accounting of profits and damages alleged to be due to the defendants’ use of the particular business name.

The facts material to the questions here involved are as follows:

Since September 1924, the plaintiff, a corporation of the State of New York, has been continuously engaged in selling, at retail and wholesale throughout the United States, men’s hats bearing the trade-mark and under the trade name of “Adam Hats”…