Show clean hands in law there la a legal maxim he who 1 seeka equity must come with clean bands As explained in bowmans handbook that a plaintiff who has been guilty of inequitable conduct in the same matter concerning which he aska relief against the defendants in equitable conduct will be denied relief an illustration cited Is that a plaintiff who sues to restrain the de fondant from infringing his trade mark will be denied relief where alie trade mark Is itself untruthful and misleading to the public A somewhat similar maxim Is he who seeks equity must do equity philander maxwell was an arrival the last of the week from las vegas nevada where he had been for several months working with a government survey party in the vicinity of hoover dam on the colorado river he states that the weather there is unbearably hot and he was successful in getting transferred to utah philander left this week tor blanding where he join the survey party of john now starting operations there |