Court Opinion

ID: 8862071
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Date Created: 2022-11-26 17:51:58.547459+00
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*468On Rehearing.
(May 19, 1898.)
Richard O. Dale and Henry E. Everding, for' petitioners.
GOFF, Circuit Judge.
The court has duly considered this petition for a rehearing, and it is ordered that the mandate issue as heretofore directed. The opinion filed in this cause on the 3d day of May, 1898, found error in the decree appealed from, not, as stated in the petition for a rehearing, solely because the complainants below had failed to prove material allegations of their bill of complaint, but also because the court found that the word “Pocahontas” could not be exclusively appropriated by complainants as a trade-mark or word-symbol, for the reason that it was and is a geographical word, in and to which all the people of the section of country to which it refers have the common right of use in connection with their business in such locality: It follows, therefore, that- further proofs relating to the same would be unavailing, and it was for this reason that the court remanded the cause, with instructions that the bill be dismissed. The ruling is adhered to. We are clearly of the opinion, not only that complainants below are not entitled to an injunction, but also that there is no equity in their bill, and tliat, therefore, it will be a useless expenditure of time and money, and cause fruitless delay, to take the evidence mentioned in the petition for a rehearing. The prayer of the petition is refused.