Piggly Wiggly Corporation v. Saunders

ROSS, District Judge.

This is a proceeding instituted by plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, with its principal office in Memphis, Tenn., to enjoin the defendant, Clarence Saunders, a resident of Memphis, Tenn., from engaging in the grocery and merchandising business under certain conditions. On the 6th day of March, 1924, plaintiff filed its bill, alleging in substance:

That in 1918 defendant procured valuable patents from the United States and many foreign countries covering a system of merchandising known as tbe “Clarence Saunders Self-Serving Stores”; that he also obtained a copyright and…