Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. v. Garner

The main question in this case is, whether the defendants have a right to apply the distinctive part of the plaintiff’s name to prints or calicoes.

The plaintiff is and has been for many years a manufacturer of cotton goods in general, and its productions have extended to almost every variety of such goods.

It has never, however, produced nor dealt in that particular class of cotton goods known as prints or calicoes, and consequently has never applied thereto, its corporate name nor any part of it.

Its goods are, and have been sold under the name of “ The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company,” which…