Symonds v. Jones
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In equity. This was an appeal from a decree of the presiding justice who heard the case, sitting in equity for Cumberland county, and who granted a decree against the defendant enjoining him from using certain labels and trade-marks, formerly employed by him in the canning business, and which with his manufacturing’ establishments, good-will, etc., he had sold and conveyed.
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In equity. This was an appeal from a decree of the presiding justice who heard the case, sitting in equity for Cumberland county, and who granted a decree against the defendant enjoining him from using certain labels and trade-marks, formerly employed by him in the canning business, and which with his manufacturing’ establishments, good-will, etc., he had sold and conveyed. The bill praying for an injunction and account was filed July 1, 1887. After the bill was filed, Davis, Baxter and Davis, the purchasers of the labels, trade-marks and other property from the original complainants were…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
Tliis is an equity appeal. The material facts found by the court are these :
John Winslow Jones, the respondent, for several years prior to 1880 had been carrying on extensively the business of preserving or “canning” meat, fish and vegetables at various factories in Maine, "New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and had built up a large trade in the canned products in the United States and Canada. The particular process of canning was known as the “Winslow Process,” having been originated by one Isaac Winslow. The business above stated was started by Nathan Winslow & Co., and was succeeded…
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