Court Opinion

ID: 5412678
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:11:45.93281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:52.430221
License: Public Domain

O’Gorman, J.
The evidence, prescribes a clear case of unfair competition which would justify equitable relief if the plaintiff’s own conduct were free from criticism, but the photographic business is in the nature of a profession or calling as distinguished from a trade or mercantile pursuit, and the trade-mark “Sarony” being personal to Napoleon S'arony, because of his personal skill and artistic excellence, was not assignable. When the plaintiff, who is a printer and not a photographer, holds himself out as “ Sarony ” and “the original Sarony” he is perpetrating a fraud upon the public, and in such a case equity will withhold relief. Prince, v. Prince, 134 N. Y. 24; Hegeman v. Hegeman, 8 Daly, 1.
Complaint dismissed, with costs.