Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — DECISION FAVORS CASTORIA. [ARTICLE]

DECISION FAVORS CASTORIA.

Groeacup Grants an Injunction Against Imitators of This Valnabl* Remedy. A decision of general interest was delivered lately at Chicago by Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States Circuit Court, giving the Centaur Company oi New York City, manufacturers of Oa»toria. a world {•enOwned remedy, an injunction against the members of the Chicago firm of Hurd. Young & Hirsehoa, acting as agents of the Pitcher Medicine Company of Duluth, Minn. Judge Grosscup, in his decision, find* that the defendants manufactured, put up and sold imitation wrappers, labels and packages, a preparation known as “Castoria.” The court held that such manufacture and use of original label was * gross violation of the Centaur Company’* rights. The judge thereupon issued ant injunction restraining the defendants iron* imitating the original castoria labels fog Centaur Company. Messrs. Hamline, Scott and Lord appeared as attorneys fog the Centaur Company. During the hear-, ing of the case an affidavit was read fron* Dr. Samuel Pitcher, the originator of the preparation castoria, in which he stated that the Centaur Company only had the right to use his formula and his name. Charles H. Fletche., president of the company, has been most active in tracing the source of spurious goods that were found on the market and offered for sale as the real article. He discovered that the imitation was first put on the market byj the Sager Drug Company of 4 Minn., and that Mr. Hurd and other* handled the preparation in Chicago. The sale was found so easy that the agent* proceeded to put up a preparation of theie own, thus checkmating their principals. The decision jusf 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.”