Casinghead Gas Co. v. Osborn
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 138, Oct. T., 1920, by plaintiff, from decree of O. P. Venango Co., dissolving preliminary injunction, in case of Casinghead Gas Co. v. J. B. Osborn et al. Bill in equity for injunction. Before Criswell, P. J. The opinion of tbe Supreme Court states the facts. The court dissolved a preliminary injunction previously granted. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was decree, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
In this case the court below granted a preliminary injunction, which it subsequently dissolved; plaintiff has appealed.
The “established practice on such appeals is to determine only whether on the facts developed [as “disclosed by the record”: Bixler v. Swartz, 257 Pa. 300, 304] an injunction should have been granted, and to withhold any expression of opinion on the merits until after final hearing and decree”: Lockwood v. Ambridge Boro., 233 Pa. 521, 522.
*397“An interlocutory injunction is provisional and concludes no right”; this is so, even after its…
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