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ported by Borgfeldt & Co. The circuit court reversed the decision of the board, and the Un'ited States appealed. Henry D. Sedgwick, for the United States. Albert Comstock, for appellees. BeforeWALLAOE, LACOMBE, and SHIPMAN, Circuit Judges. PER OURIAM. We agree with the board of general appraisers that the importations in controversy-toothpicks-were not dutiable as "quills, prepared or unprepared," under paragraph 768 of the tariff act of March 3, 1883, and that such provision is intended to apply to quills in their natural condition, or prepared by cleaning, bleaching, scouriIig, etc., and not to those which have been advanced and transformed into a new article of commerce, having a distinct name, and adapted for a new use; and that they were properly classified as unenumerated articles, manufactured in part, under section 2516, Rev. St. The decision of the circuit court is therefore reversed, and that of the board of appraisers affirmed.
JOHNSON et al. v. BAUER et al. (CircuIt Court, N. D. Illinois. TRADE·MARKS-INFRINGE)rENT.
November 16, 1896.)
A trade-mark con·sisting of a red Greek cross is not infrInged by a mark for similar goods, consisting of a Maltese cross having a red center and dark projections, the latter being placed upon packages which, by their peculiar lettering and ornamentation, are given a more distinct individuality than the packages to which the first mark Is affixed.
Rowland Cox and Banning & Banning, for complainants. Moran, Kraus & Mayer and Walter H. Chamberlain, for defendants. GROSSCUP, District Judge (orally). The bill in this case is filed to restrain the infringement of a trade-mark. The complainants are the manufacturers and sellers of large quantities of medicinal plasters. They sell these plasters in boxes of a somewhat peculiar pattern, the colors of the boxes varying according to traditional notions of druggists respecting the character of plasters; and upon each of these boxes, both at the ends and on the sides, is stamped a red Greek cross. The defendants are the manufacturers and sellers also of medicinal plasters, and have adopted, among the other insignia of their trade-mark, a cross of the pattern of the Maltese cross, having a red center and dark projections. The sole question is whether the defendants' designs for a trade-mark are clearly and purposely within the boundaries that the complainants are entitled to reserve as exclusive to themselves. All these cases depend not so much upon general rules of law as upon the individual application of the law to the case in hand. I was impressed with the fact at the hearing, upon an exhibition of these trade-marks, both of the complainants and of the defendants, that the defendants' had a very much more striking individuality than the complainants'. I could not pick out,-and
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there were a great many of the different boxes exhibited at the hearing,-I could not piok out the complainants' boxes except by the little red Greek cross. I could pick out, anywhere and everywhere, the defendants' boxes, by the peculiar lettering on the box, the nature of the background, and I suppose by a combination of features, the particulars of which could not perhaps be designated, but the unity of which mark its individuality; just as one picks out another's face, not because of the color of the eye, or the shape of the nose, or the contour of the face, but by the combined effects of all these and other features. The conclusion that I have arrived at is that the defendants have individuality of design, and the complainants have not. The complainants' sole individuality, if they have any at all, rests on the red Greek cross. I do not think that is sufficient to give to them an exclusive right to use the Greek cross. I do not think that the defendants so nearly imitate their trade-mark, or come anything like so nearly imitating it, as to deceive the public who are looking for the complainants' goods. The bill will therefore be dismissed for want of equity. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, Limited, v. MIKOLAS et aL (Circuit Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division. April 8, 189i.) TRADE-MARKS.
A firm engaged in the United States in bottling and selling whlskey under the name of "Canadian Rye Whiskey," in bottles and with labels, bands, and devices so nearly resembling those upon the bottles of a corpora.tion engaged in Canada in manufacturing and selling whiskey under the name of "Canadian Club Whiskey" as to constitute unfair competition, and evidence an intent to deceive purchasers, will be restrained from the use of the words "Canadian Rye Whiskey" and of the bands and labels mentioned.
V. J. Welch and Frank Hubachek, for complainant. Simon Meyers, for defendants. LOOHREN, District Judge. Hearing was had at the court room in the federal building in the city of Minneapolis, in said district, on Saturday, the 19th day of December, 189-6, upon the order requiring the defendants above named to show cause why they should not be restrained during the pendency of this action as prayed in the bill of complaint and set forth in the order to show cause. Both parties appeared by counsel, and were heard. From the showing presented, it appears that the complainant, since its incorporation, in 1890, and the partnership of Hiram Walker & Sons, its predecessor prior to that time, were and have been engaged in the manufacture, distilling, and sale of whiskey at Walkerville, in the province of Ontario and dominion of Oanada, using the name "Canadian Olub Whiskey" as the trade-mark to distinguish such whiskey from whiskey manufactured by others, and that the complainant, upon its incorporation, succeeded to and acquired the business of said former partnership, and its right to the said name and trade-mark, which name and trade-mark had never before been used; that the whiskey so manufactured, distilled,