Worden v. California Fig Syrup Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TP THE CIRCUIT COURT OF -APPEALS FOR THE NINTH • CIRCUIT. On June. 1, 1897, the California Fig Syrüp Company, created under the laws of the State of Nevada, and having its principal place of business in San Francisco, California, filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, against Clinton E. Worden & Company, a corporation of the State of California, and against J. A. Bright, T. F. Bacon, C. J. Schmelz…
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CERTIORARI TP THE CIRCUIT COURT OF -APPEALS FOR THE NINTH • CIRCUIT. On June. 1, 1897, the California Fig Syrüp Company, created under the laws of the State of Nevada, and having its principal place of business in San Francisco, California, filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, against Clinton E. Worden & Company, a corporation of the State of California, and against J. A. Bright, T. F. Bacon, C. J. Schmelz and Lucius Little, citizens of the State of California. The bill alleged that, in the year 1879, one Richard E. Queen…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shieas
The courts below concluded, upon the evidence, that the defendants sold a medical preparation named, marked and packed, in imitation of the complainant’s medicine, for the purpose and with the design and intent of deceiving purchasers and inducing them to buy defendants’ preparation instead of the complainant’s. We see no reason to dissent from that conclusion, and if there were no other questions in the case, we should be ready to affirm the decree, awarding a perpetual injunction and an account of 'the profits and gains derived from such unfair and dishonest practices.
Another ground,…
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