Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. Christensen Engineering Co.

This is a motion to dismiss an appeal from an order denying a preliminary injunction (103 Fed. 491), which order was entered July 17, 1900, on the ground that the court has no jurisdiction to entertain such an appeal. By section 7 of the act of March 3,1891, establishing circuit courts of appeals, there was no provision authorizing the taking of an appeal from an order refusing a pre*623liminary injunction. This section was amended, however, by chapter 96 of the Statutes at Large of 1895, approved February 18, 1895, so as to read as follows:

“That whore, upon a hearing in equity in a district…