Name of ‘Old Mill’ Causes Court Row

NAME OF 'OLD MILL' CAUSES COURT ROW Owner of Vacated Property Seeks to Prevent Transfer to Another Site Chancery proceedings to restrain Neil F. Deighan, former president of the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Association, from using the name Old Mill or Old Mill Inn were instituted yesterday. Raymond Saltzman, attorney for George and Charles Wiedenmann, lessors of a property which Deighan has operated as the Old Mill Inn on the Burlington pike, Pennsauken township, applied to Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis for a restraining order. A rule to show cause was granted, returnable next Tuesday. The attorney stated Deighan moved from the Old Mill Inn early Tuesday and opened a new place on the Burlington pike at Haddonfield road, about two blocks from the vacated property, and is using the old name. He contended that the name was attached to the Wiedenmann property for many years before operation of the inn by Deighan. Deighan said last night he had many reasons for claiming the right to the name and that they would be revealed when the rule to show cause is argued. He said the name was registered by him in 1931 and that the business has been incorporated as the Old Mill Inn, Inc., since last February.