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NEW YOKE SUPERIOR COURT. 
At the Special Teem, April, 1859. 
Pierbepont, Justice. The following decision was given. 
“ It appeared before me, upon the trial of this cause, that 
the plaintiff, in November, 1856, compounded, from Cocoa-nut 
Oil and other ingredients, a mixture to be used upon the 
human hair; that he devised a name never before used, by 
which to mark his said compound, to wit:—the name or word 
1 Cocoaine:’ that he forthwith published in all his circulars, 
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and in all the principal newspapers of the country, and espe¬ 
cially in-the city of New York, where the defendants reside 
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that he had adopted the above-mentioned name or title as a 
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‘ Trade-Mark,' to secure the public and the proprietors against 
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“ About two years after the first introduction of this article 
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by the plaintiffs, the defendants, residents of the city of New 
York, commenced the sale of a somewhat similar preparation, 
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put up in bottles not unlike those of the plaintiff's. * * 
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“ The proof is clear that the plaintiff had, for nearly two 
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years, advertised his mixture in nearly every newspaper in 
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this city, and had published in the same papers that ho had 
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adopted the word ‘Cocoaine’ as his Trade-Mark. The do- 
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fendant was himself a witness, and he did not suggest that 
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these notices had not been brought homo to his knowledge; 
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the conclusion is irresistible, that he was aware of their publi- 
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cation, and he intentionally adopted ‘ Cocoine’ as a close imi- 
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tation of 4 Cocoaine,’ and for the purpose of deriving profit 
from the simulated trade-mark. 
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“The plaintiff is entitled to judgment, and an injunction 
must issue.” 
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Envy. Bramble. —It is the emblem of envy because it inter¬ 
feres so much with the growth of other plants. 
Absence. Wormwood.— Wormwood is the bitterest of plants. 
Its scientific name, Absinthium, is derived from the Greek, 
and signifies “ without sweetness.” It is, therefore, very ap¬ 
propriately made the emblem of absence. 
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Undertake nothing without thoroughly considering it. 
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