Wells v. Oregon Ry. & N. Co.

These suits were commenced on December 11, 1882, and on the same day an order was made in each requiring the defendant therein to show cause why a provisional injunction should not issue, as prayed for in the bill; and also that in the mean time the defendants be so restrained. On January 25-6 the motions for provisional injunctions were heard at length—all the questions which can or may arise in the cases being argued by counsel with much zeal and ability. Contemporaneous with those, a similar suit was commenced by the plaintiff in Washington territory against the Northern Pacific Bailway…