Vickers v. Durham.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J. H. Vickers against the City of Durham, heard by Judge T. A. McNeill, at September Term, 1902, of the Superior Court of Durham County. From a judgment dissolving a temporary injunction, the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Our former courts of equity, from a very early day, as will be seen from the reported cases, have exercised jurisdiction to prevent by an injunction threatened evils of the nature of nuisance, when the injury, if done, could not be repaid in damages — the foundation of the interference of equity resting in the necessity of preventing irreparable mischief and multiplicity of suits; and under The Code (881) still larger powers have been conferred, affording additional remedies for the protection of rights and the prevention of the committing or continuing of wrongs connected with the free use…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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