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...Beech-Nut Packing Co.: $1,510,484 as against...
...looking a bit like the late Viscount Bryce, pounded a desk and argued a water power case with vigorous conviction. He was Moses Hooper-for 70 years an able lawyer of Oshkosh, Wis. He had ridden in his automobile to Washington and intends to ride back to Oshkosh soon. Beech-Nut v. Beechnut. P. Lorillard Co. (Beechnut chewing tobacco) is not infringing the trademark of the Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut chewing ' gum, candies, ham, peanut butter, etc.) - decided the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Said Mr. Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The Lorillard Co. is at least...
Costly lawyers argued before the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week over homonymic trademarks. The Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut provisions, chewing-gum, candies) wanted P. Lorillard Co. (tobaccos) to cease labeling one of its cigaret and tobacco brands Beechnut. Lorillard Co. asserted that Beechnut was the name of a chewing tobacco made by a now dissolved Kentucky firm they once owned; that Beech-Nut Packing was not making tobacco products and was not injured by the similarity of trademarks. Beech-Nut complained that some day they might want to manufacture cigarets and other tobacco products; then there...
...Lorillard Co. hired, for this trademark case, John W. Davis. Beech-Nut Packing secured Charles E. Hughes (1910-16 U. S. Supreme Court Justice). Less fortunate lawyers predicted the usual fat fees, said Lawler Davis had commanded in one case $5,000 a day, that Lawyer Hughes had received $100,000 for a single case. Both lawyers once ran for President and were defeated: Mr. Hughes in 1916, as the Republican candidate, Mr. Davis in 1924 on the Democratic ticket. Both illustrate the earnings-power of men in public life...