Lillie v. Lillie
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on injunction bond. Heard on referee’s report;, December Term, 1881, Powers,. J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff to recover 1139.36, — the sum first named, and disallowing all other sums.
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Action on injunction bond. Heard on referee’s report;, December Term, 1881, Powers,. J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff to recover 1139.36, — the sum first named, and disallowing all other sums. The bond was: “Know all men by these presents that we Elhanan T. Lillie, Horatio Lillie . . . are held and firmly bound unto ” (plaintiffs) . . . “ we hereby bind ourselves . . . The condition of this obligation is such that whereas . . . Now if the said-the orators shall well and truly pay and indemnify the said defendants from all damages occasioned them by the granting of such injunction . .…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Taft, J.
This is an action of debt to recover damages upon an injunction bond. The bond was given in an equity suit in favor of the defendants against the plaintiffs to restrain them from cutting wood and timber upon the premises described in the bill. The plaintiff, Elisha Lillie, held a life estate in the land, and the other plaintiffs and the defendants held the reversionary interest therein. The plaintiffs were restrained from cutting down any timber, trees or wood, standing or growing upon the premises, or in any way disposing of the same (except…
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