Racine Paper Goods Co. v. Dittgen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Appellee, who has been for more than 15 years a manufacturer and dealer in paper cigar pouches, filed his bill in the Circuit Court charging that appellant, a Wisconsin corporation engaged in the same business, for the purpose of suppressing competition, and with intent to break up and destroy appellee’s business, was, at the time the bill was filed, and had been theretofore,…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Appellee, who has been for more than 15 years a manufacturer and dealer in paper cigar pouches, filed his bill in the Circuit Court charging that appellant, a Wisconsin corporation engaged in the same business, for the purpose of suppressing competition, and with intent to break up and destroy appellee’s business, was, at the time the bill was filed, and had been theretofore, circulating among appellee’s customers and the trade generally, by letters and otherwise, representations that appellee was…
1Opinion of the CourtKohlsaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). By amendment to the bill, and evidence introduced, it appears that *633appellant corporation succeeded to the business of a copartnership of the same name, whose members became the charter members of the corporation about January 1, 1902. In its amended answer appellant denies the charge that the transaction was merely a merger of the copartnership into the corporation, and denies that it committed the acts complained of in the bill, or that they were malicious or false or made for the purpose of destroying appellee’s business, or will do so. The amended answer…
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- Manhattan Trust Co. v. Sioux City & N. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa · 1900
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