Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Du Bois Brewing Co.

GIBSON, District Judge.

By the present action the complainant seeks to enjoin the defendant in the use of the common law trade-mark which plaintiff claims in the word “Budweiser” to identify it’s manufacture of beer and other related products.

In the year 1876 one Carl Conrad, a dealer in malt and other beverages in Saint Louis, put out a beer which he called “Budweiser”, and which was manufactured for him by the predecessors of the plaintiff. This beer was in imitation of beer manufactured in Budweis, an old city in Bohemia, which Conrad and plaintiff’s predecessors' considered to be of a high…