JOHN B. STETSON CO. v. STEPHEN L. STETSON CO.

No. 467.

85 F.2d 586 (1936)

JOHN B. STETSON CO. v. STEPHEN L. STETSON CO., Limited, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

August 10, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman, of New York City (Martin Conboy and David Asch, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant Stephen L. Stetson Company, Ltd.

Gelman & Erde, of New York City (Louis I. Gelman and Joseph George Erde, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant Hutt & Wasserman, Inc.

Clarke & Allen, of New York City (Maurice Bower Saul, Allen S. Olmsted, 2nd, and Earl G. Harrison, all of Philadelphia, Pa., and Murray F. Johnson, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, John B. Stetson Company, is a corporation of Pennsylvania organized in 1891. It succeeded to the hat business founded by John B. Stetson in 1865 in Philadelphia, and it has become one of the largest and best known manufacturers of hats in the world. In May, 1906, it was granted the trade-mark "Stetson" upon an application for registration under the Act of February 20, 1905, c. 592, § 5, 33 Stat. 725 (see 15 U.S.C.A. §...

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