Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Co. v. Krieger
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 113 —RULE— APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. No violation of any order of injunction, and, therefore, no contempt, is shown to have been committed by appellant. 2. If any violation of a valid order is shown, it was not violent or contemptuous in fact, but has occurred because practically impossible to avoid it, except by the failure of appellant to perform a plain imperative duty to the public.
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Case 113 —RULE— APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. No violation of any order of injunction, and, therefore, no contempt, is shown to have been committed by appellant. 2. If any violation of a valid order is shown, it was not violent or contemptuous in fact, but has occurred because practically impossible to avoid it, except by the failure of appellant to perform a plain imperative duty to the public. A strict observance of the order in the sense contended for by appellee would involve not only a violation of such public duty, but would be in plain violation of established principles of…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OP THE COURT.
As appears from Ms petition filed November 4, 1886, *627and is otherwise shown, the plaintiff, now appellee, Jacob Krieger, owns a lot of land in the city of Louisville, described as follows: Beginning at a point in the north line of Duncan street 10b feet east of Fifteenth; thence north parallel with the latter 153 feet to south line of Portland avenue; with that line east 98 feet to the line of a lot owned by the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company; with it south 96 feet to Duncan street, and thence west to the beginning.
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