State ex rel. Bettman v. Harness
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited Code, c. 135, es. 1, 14; 160 Pa. St. 559; 40 Am. St. Rep. 734; 34 W. Va. 49; 29 W. Va. 176; 26 W. Va. 595; 39 W. Va. 704, 749; 132 U. S. 14; 23 W. Va. 451; High, Inj. § 1698; 19 W. Va. 145; 16 W. Va. 879; 36 W. Va. 139. cited 16 W. Va. 874-5; 5 Rand. 332; 115 H. S. 168; Code, c. 135, ss. 1, J2; 19 W. Va. 145; 20 S. E. Rep. 946.
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, J udge:
Bettman & Watson obtained from a judge of a circuit court an injunction against Harness and others, restraining them from boring for oil on certain premises, and, from an order overruling a motion to dissolve it, the defendants took an appeal and supersedeas to this Court, pending which the defendants violated the injunction, and the plaintiff's instituted in this Court a proceeding for contempt, which we now decide.
An appeal and supersedeas to a decree or order dissolving an injunction keeps it in force pending the appeal, and acts prohibited by the injunction constitute…
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- Knox County v. HarshmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
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