Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — DECISION FAVORS CASTORIA. [ARTICLE]

DECISION FAVORS CASTORIA.

Jndge Grosecnp Grants ■■ w njsnrtlsffi Against I mltators of Thia Valnabto Kennedy. A decision of general interest ered lately at Chicago by Judge Peter S, Grosscup of the United States Circnft Court, giving the Centaur Company «• New York City, manufacturers of Ca»* toria, a world renowned remedy, an in* junction against the members of the Chicaxo firm of Hurd. Young & acting as agents of the Pitcher Medicine Company of Duluth, Minn. Judge Grosscnp, In his decision, finds that the defendants manufactured, put up and sold imitation wrappers, labels and packages, a preparation known as “Can* toria.” The court held that such manufacture and use of original label was ■ gross violation of the Centaur Company’s rights. The judge thereupon issued aa injunction restraining tbe defendants from imitating the original castoria labels foe Centaur Company. Messrs. Scott and Lord appeared as attorneys foe the Centaur Company. During the hearing of the case an affidavit was read from Dr. Samuel Pitcher, the originator Of the preparation castoria, in which he stated that the Centaur Company only had tbs right to use his formula and his name. Charles H. Fletchei, president of ths company, has been most active in tracing tbe source of spurious goods that were found on the market and offered for sale as the real article. He discovered that ths imitation was first put on the market bg the Sager Drug Company of Duluth, Minn., and that Mr. Hurd and others handled the preparation in Chicago. Ths sale was found so easy that the agents proceeded to put up a preparation of tbeie own, thus checkmating their principals. The decision just rendered covers both imitations. The Centaur Company are now. taking steps to proceed criminally against druggists who have been talked into laying in a stock of the counterfeit “Castoria.”