Faust v. Cairns
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 47, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1912, No. 3730, refusing preliminary injunction in case of Marguerite Faust, through her Attorney in Fact, D. Challiss Faust, v. A. A. Cairns, M. D., Chief Medical Inspector of the Bureau of Health, and James Robinson, Superintendent of Police. Bill in equity to restrain a board of health from maintaining a quarantine. Motion for preliminary injunction.
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Appeal, No. 47, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1912, No. 3730, refusing preliminary injunction in case of Marguerite Faust, through her Attorney in Fact, D. Challiss Faust, v. A. A. Cairns, M. D., Chief Medical Inspector of the Bureau of Health, and James Robinson, Superintendent of Police. Bill in equity to restrain a board of health from maintaining a quarantine. Motion for preliminary injunction. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court made an order refusing a preliminary injunction. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This appeal is from an order refusing a preliminary injunction to restrain the continuance of a quarantine established by the Board of Health of Philadelphia of premises on which a case of smallpox had developed. The appeal was taken on the day that the quárantine was removed, moré than three months before the argument of this appeal, and all restraint on the appellant was removed at that time. She has since been at liberty to come and go as she willed and no decree that we could enter would enlarge the privilege that she now enjoys. There is, therefore, no actual controversy for…
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