AN INTERESTING CASE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 270, 19 August 1915, Page 4

AN INTERESTING CASE.

Judgment has been delivered in the Supreme Court, W ollington, in the action brought by George W. Hean, chemist, Wanganui, proprietor of Hean’s'Cough Essence, against Percy S. Eaton, chemist, and William J. R. 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 whicn, it was alleged, was named, bottled, labelled, and packed to resemble Hean’s Essence, and thereby to mislead the public.

Defendants did not appear, and Mr. Justitcc Hosking ordered that an injunction be issued restraining the above-named defendants from passing of or attempting to pass off any cough essence not manufactured by George W. Hean, and restraining defendants from offering for sale any cough essence not of plaintiff’s manufacture by means of the use of cartons, labels, and bottles similar to those of (Jieorge W. Hean. His Honour also ordered that tho profits made therefrom be computed by the Registrar of the Court and paid/over to plaintiff; that all packages of Hill’s Essence offending against the injunction granted bo handed over to the plaintiff, and that the defendants also pay to the plaintiff £3(l 1/ as costs and disbursements.