AN INTERESTING CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 94, 21 August 1915, Page 2

AN INTERESTING CASE.

Judgment has been delivered in tire Supreme Court, Wellington, in the action brought by George W. Beau, chemist; Wanganui, proprietor of Mean’s Cough Essence, against Percy S. Eaton, chemist, and William J. 11. Hill, commercial traveller both of Auckland, and trading as Hill’s Essence Proprietary. The plaintiff sought to restrain the defendants from passing off a cough mixture which, it was alleged, was named, bottled, labelled, and packed to resemble Mean’s Essence, and thereby to mislead the public. Defendants did not appear, and Mr Justice Hosking ordered that an injunction be issued restraining the above-named defendants from passing off or attempting to pass off any cough essence not manufactured by George W. Hoan, and restraining defendants from offering for sale any cough essence not of plaintiff’s manufacture by means of the use of cartoons, labels and bottles similar to those of Geo. W. Mean. His Honor also ordered that the profits made therefrom he computed by the llegistrar of tho Court and paid over to ilie plaintiff; that aH packages of Hill’s Essence offending against the injunction granted be bunded over to the plaintiff, and that the defendants also pay to the plaintiff CL’6 Is as costs and disbursements.