Case ID: teiss_4/html/0410-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DUFOUR, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 4181.
    (Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans.)
    HYADES SOCIAL CLUB vs. JOHN SEEBT, et als.
    In a controversy between two 'organizations as to the right to a name, that which adopted it first is entitled to it.
    Appeal from Civil District Court, Division “E.”
    Loys Charbonnet, for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    Theo. Cotonio, for Defendant and Appellee.
    June 21st, 1907.
   DUFOUR, J.

The plaintiff, alleging itself to have been incorporated under that name, on July 19th, 1905, took out an injunction against Seebt, Kruebhe, Gibson, and others, to restrain them from assuming the name of Hyades Club in the giving of a proposed entertainment.

It appears that on September 24th, 1904, the members of the plaintiff club, together with some of the defendants, formed a society known as the Hyades Social Club.

A charter under private signature, was drawn up, was approved by the district attorney and recorded in -the mortgage office.

Subsequently some of the members withdrew and "formed the plaintiff association.

The corporation which first adopted the name is entitled to it, and the injunction was properly dissolved.

Judgment affirmed.