Sullivan v. Judah & Weed
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application for an attachment against the defendants, for a breach of an injunction. A cross motion was made for a dissolution of the injunction, which application was granted, upon the ground that there was no equity in the complainant’s bill entitling him to an injunction.
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This was an application for an attachment against the defendants, for a breach of an injunction. A cross motion was made for a dissolution of the injunction, which application was granted, upon the ground that there was no equity in the complainant’s bill entitling him to an injunction. The defendant, Judah, was the proprietor of certain buildings, which were being erected in the city of New-York, and the defendant Weed was employed in the erection thereof, under a contract to do the carpenter’s work. The injunction, among other things, restrained the defendants from proceeding with the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
'v There is no doubt in this case, that there has been a technical violation of the injunction, on the part of both defendants. The injunction was erroneous in not describing with sufficient certainty, on its face, the particular buildings with the erection of which the defendants were restrained from proceeding. The injunction should, in itself, contain sufficient to apprise the party upon whom it is served what he is restrained from doing; without the necessity of his *446resorting to the complainant’s bill on file, to ascertain what the injunction means. And if the defendants,…
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