Lyons v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to and Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suit in equity by the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation against Dan Lyons and others. From an order granting a preliminary injunction, defendants appeal. Affirmed. Frank Newman and others, and Robert B. Taylor, defendants, bring error from orders adjudging them in contempt for violation of the injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
These three cases were argued and submitted together. In one of them is sought the reversal of a decree ordering the issuance of a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by the appellee, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. In the other two cases orders of the court adjudging individuals in contempt for violations of the injunction issued in the first-mentioned case are complained of.
[1] The question of the sufficiency of the bill in the case in which the injunction was issued was not raised in the trial court. It is now contended that that bill…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hunnicutt v. PeytonSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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