MacGruer v. Denivelle

WARD, J., pro tem.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment in favor of defendant in an action for maliciously obtaining an injunction. The respondent Denivelle had been in the imitation travertine business in eastern states; about 1912 he became the supervisor of all artificial travertine work for the Panama Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco. At such time the appellants MacGruer and Simpson (co-partners) had a contract for plain and ornamental plastering on Machinery Hall, one of the Panama Pacific International Exposition buildings. During this period appellants…