LOCAL FINANCE COMPANY OF SHELBY v. Jordan

The plaintiff seeks to restrain the breach of a written contract the parties executed. True, the validity of that contract is in dispute. Ordinarily, a -court of equity should not resolve a serious dispute without a full hearing on the merits. “It is generally proper, when the parties are at issue concerning the legal or equitable right, to grant an interlocutory injunction to preserve the right in statu quo until the determination of the controversy, an-d especially is this the rule when the principal relie-f sought is in itself an injunction, because a dissolution of a pending interlocutory…