Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — REED ON CASTORIA [ARTICLE]

REED ON CASTORIA

Tice Chancellor Reed Sustains Charles H. Fletcher in His Suit. Vic® Chancellor Reed, sitting In th® Court of Chancery at Trenton, N. J., has just rendered a decision of vital Importance in the case of The Centaur Company against a party calling themselves the C. W. Link Drug Company. It seems for the past year or mor® Mr. Charles H. Fletcher, president of The Centaur Company, the manufacturers of Castoria, has been fighting, through the courts, counterfeiters and Imitators of their goods. All of the fake goods are put up In a manner to lead the purchaser to think they are getting the same Castoria they have always bought, and the Chancellor dwells at length on this point, showing how easy It would be to Inform tb® public of the difference between th® packages If It were not their object to mislead the consumer. He says In part: "Every one of the packages put In evidence by the defendant show a persistent adoption of the size of the bottle and the label of the complainant. All these manufacturers knew, just as the defendant knew, that if th® remedy was put up In round bottles or In bottles distinctively larger or smaller. or If the bottles were so differently wrapped, as to at once arrest the attention of the casual purchaser, the sale of the remedy In such packages would at once become substantially reduced.’’ Citing numerous cases In line with this opinion, he gave Mr. Charles H. Fletcher the Injunction asked for and the C. W. Link Drug Company must seek new fields.—Philadelphia Inquirer.