J. & P. Coats, Ltd. v. John Coates Thread Co.

LOCHREN, District Judge (orally).

This suit was brought by the complainant corporation, which is a manufacturer and dealer in thread, to restrain the defendant corporation, which is also a dealer in thread, from the use of the corporate name which the defendant has adopted; claiming that such use results in what is known as “unfair competition/"' *178and is liable to deceive the public and purchasers of thread into the belief that the thread which is put upon the market by the defendant is the thread that is manufactured and sold by the complainant, and that it thereby injures the trade of the…