Phillips v. Detroit
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
[This was a bill in equity by Robert C. Phillips, Eugene Robinson, and Jesse H. Farwell against the city of Detroit to restrain the infringement of letters patent No. 121,544, granted to Phillips December 5, 1871, for improvement in wooden pavements. Heard on a charge of violation of a preliminary injunction.]
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The defense that the members of the board of public works were not parties to this bill, and were not served with the writ, was disposed of adversely to them upon the preliminary argument of this motion. We then held, and such we understand to be the law, that an injunction against a corporation is binding upon all persons acting for or on behalf of the corporation who have notice of the writ and of its contents, whether they be actually served with it or not. In Wellesley v. Earl of Mornington, 11 Beav. 180, 181, an injunction was issued against the defendant, but it…
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