Liu v. Farr, Low Tanoai v. Liu Farr

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LE BARON, J.

These two appeals, consolidated in this court, are from the same decree of the court of equity in proceedings consolidated below under two bills for injunctions to restrain the enforcement of a certain penal statute alleged to be invalid. In accordance with oral and written decisions of the equity court sustaining the validity of that statute as proper exercise of the police power, the decree dismissed the bills, after denying the bills’ prayers for permanent injunction. Such decree, however, not only adjudged that ex parte restraining orders and temporary…