Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — Important Trade Name Decision. [ARTICLE]

Important Trade Name Decision.

Judge Thayer, of the United States Circuit Court at St Louis, has recently handpd down an opinion and granted a perpetual injunction against the defendants in the case of the Hostetter Company against the Bruggeman Betnert Distilling Company, alias Gold Spring Distilling Company, prohibiting the advertising, manufacturing or selling of any article of stomach bitters either in bulk, by the gallon or otherwise, or in any way making use of the name “Hostetter,” except in connection with the sale of the genuine bitters, which are always sold in bottles securely sealed, and also prohibiting the sale of any bitters in bulk, though the name “Hostetter” be not used, but the suggestion made to the purchaser that he can put them in the empty Hostetter bottles and purchasers would not discover the difference. His dor cision supports the Hostetter Company In the extensive use of the natue in connection with either the manufacture or sale of stomach bitters in any manner or form whatsoever, and firmly establishes its ownership in the same as a trade name.