Miller v. Wills
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of tlie Circuit Court of Washington county pronounced January 9, 1896, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtRiely, J.
It was earnestly insisted on the part of the appellees that a court of equity was without jurisdiction to hear and determine this cause. In this view we cannot concur.
It is very true that a court of equity will not, as a general rule, interpose in the case of a mere naked trespass. There must he something more to call forth its interference. But where the act done or threatened to be done would be destructive of the substance of the estate, or if repeated acts of wrong are done or threatened to be done, or the injury is or would be irreparable, whenever, indeed, the remedy at law is or would…
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