Rowley v. Rowley

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Sadler,

The plaintiff and defendant were brothers, both engaged in the manufacture of artificial legs, the former doing business for the Best Artificial Limb Company, a Delaware corporation, of which he was the principal stockholder, and the latter having a well established business in Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio. Defendant manufactured a leg under a patent owned by a Chicago company, which had secured from the District Court of the United States an injunction against the Best Company, restraining it from the use of the name “Rowley” in connection with its business.…