M. M. Newcomer Co. v. Newcomer's New Store
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Knox County to the Court of Civil Appeals and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court.— Plow Hugh M. Tate, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hall
This cause presents a question of unfair competition by one mercantile corporation toward another.
The bill ivas filed by the complainant, a corporation conducting a mercantile business in the city of Knoxville, Tenn., for the purpose of enjoining “Newcomer’s NeAv Store,” also a mercantile corporation, and the individual defendants, M. M. Newcomer, William M. Claiborne, J. W. Culton, E. C. Stooksbury, and N. R. Williams, its stockholders, officers, and directors, from carrying on a mercantile business similar to that conducted by the complainant, and in competition with the complainant, under…
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