TAXI-FLEET COLOURS
WELLINGTON DISPUTE INJUNCTION ASKED FOR Press Association. WELLINGTON, Monday. A motion by Black and White Cabs, Limited, for an injunction to restrain four Wellington proprietors of taxicab services from painting and making up their in a manner similar to that in which the Black and White cabs are painted was made in the Supreme Court to-day. before Mr. Justice Alpers. About November of last year, it was claimed, defendants, with the idea of appropriiating plaintiff’s business and reputation, began to use cabs so constructed and painted as to imitate plaintiff’s taxis and to make the public believe that they were owned by the plaintiff.
The four defendants in the action were Barnard McEneany, James Lancelot Hagan, Fred William Neal and Edward Sandford. Their statements of defence all denied that their cabs were so painted as to render, them indistinguishable from those of the plaintiff. McEneany also claimed that the action had been brought in an endeavour to secure a monopoly of black and white as colours in the painting of motor-cars carrying passengers for hire throughout New Zealand. Argument was heard to-day, and the cast was not concluded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 58, 31 May 1927, Page 13
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