PECK BROTHERS COMPANY OF ILLINOIS, PETITIONER,

v.

PECK BROS. & CO. OF CONNECTICUT

Citator

Cited By

• N. Pac. Ry. Co. v. Adams, 192 U.S. 440 (U.S. 1904)
• Radio Shack Corp. v. Radio Shack, Inc., 180 F.2d 200 (7th Cir. 1950)
  …en complaint is made by a domestic corporation, as when by a foreign corporation. The question is not who complains. * * * ”3 This court in Peck Brothers and Co. v. Peck Bros. Co., 7 Cir., 1902, 113 F. 291, page 301, 62 L.R.A. 81, certiorari denied 187 U.S. 643, 23 S.Ct. 843, 47 L.Ed. 346, emphatically rejected the doctrine announced in the statement from the Hazelton case heretofore quoted, saying: “ * * * Is it possible that a sovereignty of a state can be thus invoked to perpetrate a fraud? * * * Then c…
• Lawyers Title Ins. Co. v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp., 109 F.2d 35 (D.C. Cir. 1939)
  …. * * * The sovereign by the act of incorporation adjudges neither the legality of the business proposed, nor of the name assumed.” The Peck Brothers & Co. v. [*40] Peck Bros. Co., 7 Cir., 1902, 113 F. 291, 300,62 L.R.A. 81, certiorari denied, 1902, 187 U.S. 643, 23 S.Ct. 843, 47 L.Ed. 346; 6 Fletcher, supra, § 2415. Incorporation, like registration of a trade-mark, should preempt the name (if it is susceptible to preemption; cf. notes 32 and 53, infra) for a reasonable period in which to allow business to…