JACOBS v. BEECHAM

No. 139.

221 U.S. 263 (1911)

JACOBS v. BEECHAM.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 15, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George F. Hurd and Mr. Cornelius W. Wickersham (by leave of the court), with whom Mr. Max J. Kohler, Mr. Moses Weill and Mr. Isaac Weill were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John L. Wilkie for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a bill by the owner of a proprietary or patent medicine, so called, made according to a secret formula and known as Beecham's Pills, to restrain the defendant from using the same name on pills made by him, and trying to appropriate the plaintiff's good will. The plaintiff had a decree in the Circuit Court enjoining the...

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