Louisville & N. R. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of'Kentucky; Walter Evans, Judge. Suit in equity by the Western Union Telegraph Company against the Eouisville & Nashville Railroad Company.. From an order granting a temporary injunction defendant appeals. This is an appeal under section 129 of the Judicial Code (Act March 3, 1911, c. 231, 36 >Stat. 1134 [IT. S. Comp. St. Supp. 19.11, p. 1941) from an order refusing to dissolve an injunction.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of'Kentucky; Walter Evans, Judge. Suit in equity by the Western Union Telegraph Company against the Eouisville & Nashville Railroad Company.. From an order granting a temporary injunction defendant appeals. This is an appeal under section 129 of the Judicial Code (Act March 3, 1911, c. 231, 36 >Stat. 1134 [IT. S. Comp. St. Supp. 19.11, p. 1941) from an order refusing to dissolve an injunction. The facts requiring present statement are these: Oil June 18, 1884, the parties to this suit, whom we shall call respectively…
1Opinion of the CourtKnappen, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The general rule by which this court should be governed in reviewing orders relating to injunction, temporary or interlocutory, is that the order will not be disturbed unless it appears that the court below has exercised its discretion upon a wholly wrong comprehension of the facts or law of the case; or, otherwise stated, that the legal discretion vested in the court to grant or withhold the order was improperly exercised. Interurban Ry. & T. Co. v. Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co., 186 Fed. 166, 170, 108 C. C. A. 298, and cases there cited; City of…
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