Attorney General v. Tudor Ice Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity by the attorney general, on behalf of the Commonwealth, and at the relation of Richard Price, to restrain the defendants from engaging in or carrying on any business other than the cutting, storing and selling of ice, Hearing, on a motion for an injunction, before the chief justice, who reported the case as follows: “ The company was organized in 1861, under the Gen. Sts. e. 61, for the purpose of cutting, storing and selling ice.
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Information in equity by the attorney general, on behalf of the Commonwealth, and at the relation of Richard Price, to restrain the defendants from engaging in or carrying on any business other than the cutting, storing and selling of ice, Hearing, on a motion for an injunction, before the chief justice, who reported the case as follows: “ The company was organized in 1861, under the Gen. Sts. e. 61, for the purpose of cutting, storing and selling ice. Its capital stock was fixed at $360,000. It has carried on this business ever since, but has also carried on various other branches of…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
This court, sitting in equity, does not administer punishment or enforce forfeitures for transgressions of law; but its jurisdiction is limited to the protection of civil rights, and to cases in which full and adequate relief cannot be had on the common law side of this court or of the other courts of the Commonwealth.
The Tudor Ice Company is a private trading corporation. It is not in any sense a trustee for public purposes. This is not a *241suit by a stockholder or a creditor. The acts'complained of are not shown to have injured or endangered any rights of the public, or of any individual or…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People ex rel. Attorney General v. Utica InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1818
- Clouston v. ShearerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
- Attorney General v. City of SalemMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Attorney General v. GarrisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
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- Mugler v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- In Re DebsSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1874
- Attorney General v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Attorney General v. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
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