Douglas v. Mod-Urn Cheese Packing Co.

As indicated on the trial, I am of the opinion that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief prayed for. To permit the defendants to continue to market its cheese as genuine Roquefort would not only be allowing them to enrich themselves at the plaintiff’s expense, but it would be an imposition upon the cheese-purchasing public. A buyer of Roquefort cheese naturally assumes that he is receiving the cheese made in the Roquefort, France, district, in accordance with the peculiar process there employed. Thus, “ Roquefort ” has acquired a secondary meaning. No one should object to his product being…