BERGHOFF RESTAURANT CO., INC. v. LEWIS W. BERGHOFF, INC.

No. 72 C 1401.

357 F.Supp. 127 (1973)

BERGHOFF RESTAURANT CO., INC., an Illinois corporation, Plaintiff, v. LEWIS W. BERGHOFF, INC., an Illinois corporation, and Lewis W. Berghoff, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Fitzgibbon, Wetzel, Greenawalt & Fitzgibbon, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Anthony A. Chiara, and Dennis A. Gross, Hill, Sherman, Meroni, Gross & Simpson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION and JUDGMENT ORDER

AUSTIN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

This lawsuit involves competing claims between members of the same family to use the surname "Berghoff" in connection with their restaurant operations in the Chicago area. Plaintiff, Berghoff Restaurant Co., Inc., has continuously engaged in the restaurant business under the name "Berghoff" since 1898 and currently...

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