GENERAL INDUSTRIES CO. v. 20 WACKER DRIVE BLDG. CORP.

No. 8777.

156 F.2d 474 (1946)

GENERAL INDUSTRIES CO. v. 20 WACKER DRIVE BLDG. CORPORATION et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Barrett, John Costello, and Wendell H. Shanner, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

Ralph M. Snyder, of Chicago, Ill., and King Fauver, of Elyria, Ohio, for appellee.

Before EVANS and MINTON, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


MINTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendants appealed from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff which enjoined them from adopting and using the name General Industries Corporation.

The plaintiff, incorporated in Ohio in 1914, first adopted the name, The General Industries Company, in 1925. During World War II it manufactured largely military equipment. Before the war it had made and sold plastic parts, spring motors, electric motors, phonograph record changers, sound...

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