Fairfield Floral Co. v. Bradbury
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
This was a suit in equity hv the Fairfield Floral Company against. W. J. Bradbury, postmaster at Fairfield, Me. The cause was heard on a motion for injunction pendente lite.
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This was a suit in equity hv the Fairfield Floral Company against. W. J. Bradbury, postmaster at Fairfield, Me. The cause was heard on a motion for injunction pendente lite. The Fairfield Floral Company was carrying on at Fairfield, Me., a business described in its circular advertisements as the “manufacture of artificial flowers,” in the prosecution of which it received through the United States mails a very large number of letters, post-office money orders, and packages of merchandise; and it forwarded through the same channels large numbers and quantities of letters, circulars, and…
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, Circuit Judge
(orally). The question whether or not this would be a mandatory injunction, if granted to the entire extent asked for, affords no difficulty. The post office department, through the postmaster at Fairfield, or, so far as we are concerned here, the postmaster at Fairfield, has interrupted the usual course of business, and the injunction is to prevent the continuance of that interruption. If, incidentally, this would compel the postmaster to perform some minor things which, in the ordinary course of business, he would perform, this would not render it a mandatory injunction. This is well…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Ex Parte JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- In Re LennonSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Enterprise Sav. Ass'n v. ZumsteinCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1895
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Fairfield Floral Co. v. BradburyU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine · 1898
- Jaynes v. WeickmanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1921
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. HollandU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio · 1906