Williams v. Harper
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill for injunction. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1906.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holdom
It is evident from a reading of the bill in this cause that the injunction has been improvidently granted and ought to be dissolved. .
The bill is clearly obnoxious to a general demurrer and such a bill cannot be permitted to serve as the support for an injunctional order dealing with substantial legal rights.
The bill is multifarious in that it seeks to join and deal with interests as a whole which are not joint and which have no such relation to each other as would justify a court of equity in adjudicating upon them in one action. The contracts, the avowed subject-matter of the bill, are…
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