Gault v. Wagner

This appeal is from a decree dismissing a bill for injunction which sought to enjoin the use by the respondents of the trade names “Gault”, “William A. Gault & Son”, and “The Original House of Gault”, and granting an injunction, prayed in a cross bill, against use by the appellants of the corporate name “William A. Gault & Bro., Inc.”

Matthew Gault, the great-grandfather of the appellants, established a stone and monument business in 1832. His son, William A. Gault, incorporated the business in 1913, under the name “William A. Gault & Son, Inc.”, but in 1916 his son, H. Matthew Gault, father…