Legal Opinion
Jackman v. Calvert-Distillers Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 1, 1940PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
This controversy concerns the right to use in Massachusetts the word Calvert as a trade mark or trade name for whiskey. For the meaning of those expressions, see George G. Fox Co. v. Glynn, 191 Mass. 344, 352; American Steel Foundries v. Robertson, 269 U. S. 372, 380; Neva-Wet Corp. of America, Inc. v. Never Wet Processing Corp. 277 N. Y. 163, 169; Nims, Law of Unfair Competition & Trade-Marks (3d ed. 1929) §§ 198, 199; Chafee, 53 Harv. L. Rev. 1289, 1297, 1298; Handler & Pickett, 30 Columbia L. Rev. 168, 759.
The plaintiff sought to restrain the use of that word by the defendant…
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