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Seeman v. Zechnowitz

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Feb 1, 1910
136 App. Div. 937 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)

Opinion

February, 1910.


It is quite true, as the appellant contends, that an injunction pendente lite will not usually be granted in an action of this character unless the right thereto is made to appear quite clearly. As to the right to enjoin defendant's use of the name "White Lily," disassociated from the labels which defendant has recently adopted, we are unwilling to decide upon the papers now before us. That question may well wait upon the trial of the action. As to the labels, however, we entertain no doubt at all. They are an obvious, palpable imitation of plaintiffs' label, unquestionably adopted with a view to deceiving purchasers and stealing plaintiffs' trade. It may be, as defendant claims, that the new Tariff Act, which reaches out in many directions, compels the use of paper packages, instead of tin, but it certainly does not compel a simulation of plaintiffs' wrappers. The order appealed from will, therefore, be so modified as to forbid the use of the wrappers now in use by defendant, or of any other wrappers simulating the wrappers in use by plaintiffs, and as so modified affirmed, without costs to either party, leaving all other questions to be determined upon the trial. Settle order on notice. Ingraham, P.J., McLaughlin and Clarke, JJ., concurred. Order modified as directed in opinion, and as modified affirmed, without costs. Settle order on notice.


Summaries of

Seeman v. Zechnowitz

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Feb 1, 1910
136 App. Div. 937 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)
Case details for

Seeman v. Zechnowitz

Case Details

Full title:JOSEPH SEEMAN and Others, Copartners in Trade, Trading under the Firm Name…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Feb 1, 1910

Citations

136 App. Div. 937 (N.Y. App. Div. 1910)
121 N.Y.S. 125

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