Fredericks v. Huber
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 49, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Jan. T., 1895, No. 5, granting preliminary injunction. Bill in equity for an injunction and to obtain possession of a church. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court granted a mandatory injunction dispossessing the respondents and putting the complainant in control of the church. Error assigned was in granting the injunction.
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Appeal, No. 49, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Jan. T., 1895, No. 5, granting preliminary injunction. Bill in equity for an injunction and to obtain possession of a church. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court granted a mandatory injunction dispossessing the respondents and putting the complainant in control of the church. Error assigned was in granting the injunction. The preliminary injunction was improvidently granted: Kincaid’s App., 66 Pa. 411; Gilroy’s App., 100 Pa. 7; 4 Brightly’s Digest, part. 1, 7, 559; Picar v. Bovolak,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
This injunction was very improvidently granted. The complainants were confessedly not in actual possession of the church, and they had admitted themselves out of legal possession by bringing an action of ejectment against the respondents. Yet on a preliminary hearing, not conducted by the examination of witnesses under the new equity rules, but without evidence except a part of the bill sworn to as an injunction affidavit, and a single other ex parte affidavit,' and in the face of a responsive answer denying the facts set up in the bill, a mandatory injunction…
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