New York Mail & Newspaper Transportation Co. v. Shea
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 11th day of March, 1898, denying its motion to punish the defendant, John L. Shea,, and others, for contempt of court in disobeying an injunction order • made in the above-entitled action.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The injunction, in terms, prohibited the defendant Shea, individually and as commissioner of bridges of the city of New York and all persons acting under his direction, from interfering with or obstructing the plaintiff in laying down its tubes and constructing its pneumatic tubes through, over and across the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and approaches thereto, in accordance with its contract authorizing them so to do, as described in the complaint in the action. It is quite apparent, therefore, that the injunction is of affirmative prohibitive force and executes itself. It is not…
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