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Howard Clark Hollister

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio district Retired 1919 · served 1910–1919 Appointed by William Howard Taft (Republican) 17 signed orders read

Judge Hollister no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.

Signed rulings

A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.

Coca Cola Co. v. Duberstein
· 1918-03-19
Trademark infringement claim (complainant) Granted

“El-Cola” is in itself an infringement of complainant’s trade-mark ‘Coca-Cola.”

Injunction request (complainant) Granted

“The complainant is entitled to an injunction against all the defendants in accordance with its prayer, and for an accounting.”

Accounting request (complainant) Granted
Contempt application (complainant) Granted

“plaintiff may take an order finding Dubersiein guilty of contempt”

Murphy v. Ford Motor Co.
· 1916-11-23
Motion to quash service (Hoosier Harness Company partners) Granted

“Tlieir motion to quash the order, and the service under it is therefore granted.”

Singer Sewing Machine Co. v. Cooper
· 1919-05-12
Motion to strike answer (complainant) Denied

“The motion to strike out will be overruled.”

Keeney v. Dominion Coal Co.
· 1915-01-26
Franchise tax claim 1911 (State of Ohio) Granted

“It is admitted by the receiver that the tax for 1911 was payable by the corporation before his appointment, and that the state is entitled to recover the tax for that year,”

Franchise tax claim 1912 and 1913 (State of Ohio) Denied

“it seems clear that the state is not in a position to require the receiver to pay this tax.”

Wayman v. Louis Lipp Co.
· 1912-02-28
Preliminary injunction (complainant) Denied

“the motion for a preliminary injunction will be denied.”

Burr v. City of Columbus
· 1918-10-29
Motions to dismiss (defendants) Granted

“The bill will be dismissed at complainants’ costs.”

Preliminary injunction (complainants) Denied

“Necessarily, the motion for a preliminary injunction is denied.”

Prest-O-Lite Co. v. Davis
· 1913-10-01
Injunction request (complainant) Granted

“The complainant is entitled to an injunction.”

Central Building, Loan & Savings Co. v. Bowland
· 1914-05-11
Tax refund claim (Central Building, Loan & Savings Co.) Granted

“the plaintiffs are entitled to recover the amounts paid by them under protest.”

Tax refund claim (companion-case plaintiff) Granted
Orr v. Allen
· 1917-08-09
Motion for interlocutory injunction (complainant) Denied

“the interlocutory injunction sought by him should not be granted. It will therefore be denied, at complainant’s costs.”

Ford Motor Co. v. Union Motor Sales Co.
· 1914-12-04
Injunction and enforcement claim (complainant) Denied

“An order may be taken dismissing complainant’s bill, at its costs.”

United States v. Eight Packages & Casks of Drugs
· 1910-08-15
Demurrer to forfeiture libel (claimant) Granted

“this ground, also, for the demurrer must be sustained.”

Meccano, Ltd. v. Wagner
· 1916-06-12
Copyright infringement claim (complainant) Granted

“also sustaining the copyright and charges of unfair competition, and the patent, so far as it covers the sector and the combina-' tion in claims 9 and 10.”

Unfair competition claim (complainant) Granted
Patent infringement claim (complainant) Granted
Unfair competition counterclaim (defendants) Denied

“Defendants’ counterclaim will be dismissed.”

Caseload & timing

From public federal docket records for this judge.

No assigned historical case set was enumerable, so no case-mix or duration claim is made.

A historical record

Judge Hollister no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.