Murphey v. G. C. Murphy Co.

BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

This action initially was instituted in the First District Court for Caddo Parish, Louisiana, by Mayo Murphey against G. C. Murphy Company, alleging a trade-name infringement. Plaintiff alleged that he had operated a dry goods store (furniture, upholstery, draperies and a general line of household merchandise), under the trade name of “Murphey’s,” in Shreveport for twenty-two years. Defendant, G. C. Murphy Company, a nationwide variety chain, when it opened its first store in Shreveport in 1961, featured, as it does in all sections of the country, the trade…