Stone v. Hunter Tract Improvement Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Gay, J., entered May 13, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action for wrongful injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
This suit was brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for the wrongful suing out of an injunction, which was continued pending an appeal to this court. Hunter Tract Imp. Co. v. Stone, 58 Wash. 661, 109 Pac. 112. Under the rulings of the trial judge, the only question left in *29the case is whether a true measure of damages was given to the jury. Plaintiffs had begun the erection of a six-room dwelling house, to cost $2,300, when the work was arrested by the lower court. After the case had been decided on appeal and the remittitur sent down, plaintiffs erected a dwelling costing less money…
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