Yale University v. Benneson
Decision Date | 15 March 1960 |
Citation | 147 Conn. 254,159 A.2d 169 |
Court | Connecticut Supreme Court |
Parties | , 125 U.S.P.Q. 252 YALE UNIVERSITY v. Edward B. BENNESON et al. Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut |
Frederick H. Wiggin and Robert F. Cavanagh, New Haven, for appellant (plaintiff).
William L. Hadden, New Haven, with whom was William L. Hadden, Jr., New Haven, for appellees (defendants).
Before BALDWIN, C. J., and KING, MURPHY, MELLITZ and SHEA, JJ.
The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment of the Superior Court denying it an injunction to restrain the defendants from using the name 'Yale' in the operation of the Yale Motor Inn near the Wilbur Cross parkway in the Yalesville section of the town of Wallingford. The plaintiff assigns error in one finding of fact, seven of the twelve conclusions of law, the overruling of its twenty claims of law, and the rendering of judgment for the defendants. In its brief, the plaintiff makes specific reference only to three of the asignments of error, relating to the conclusions reached. The others are treated as abandoned. State v. Ferraiuolo, 145 Conn. 458, 459, 144 A.2d 41. As a result, none of the subordinate facts are attacked. The conclusions which the court has reached are to be tested by the facts as found and must stand unless they are legally or logically inconsistent with those facts or unless they involve the application of some erroneous rule of law material to the case. Monick v. Town of Greenwich, 144 Conn. 608, 611, 136 A.2d 501.
The leading case in this state on unfair competition in the use of names is Middletown Trust Co. v. Middletown National Bank, 110 Conn. 13, 147 A. 22. In it (110 Conn. at page 20, 147 A. at page 25), we held that whether or not the defendants' conduct constituted unfair competition was a question of fact for the trier. We said: ...
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