People Ex Rel. Chiropractic League v. Steele

*212THE COURT.

In the petition for rehearing filed herein respondent urges that section 3369 of the Civil Code cannot be construed so as to limit the inherent power of the superior courts to grant injunctions. The section, however, in so far as it prohibits the issuance of an injunction to enforce a penal law except in a case of nuisance, is merely the codification of a general rule already existing at the time the section was adopted. The section was originally taken from Field’s draft of the New York Civil Code, section 1883. In the report of the commissioners found at page VII of Field’s draft…