Adams v. Heisel

The complainants allege that about the year 1884, while doing business in the city of New York, they commenced the preparation, manufacture, and sale of a certain form of chewing gum; and that they invented and composed therefor a trade-mark, which was wholly original with themselves, viz., “Sappota Tolu,” and describe how they put up the gum, and the boxes in which it was packed, with letters and pictorial ornaments, with panels and borders used upon such boxes; *280and that they have continuously used the said trade-mark, and put upon market their gum in boxes labeled and decorated as…