Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Holiday Inn v. Strand Development Corporation

Mindful that we review a ruling committed to trial court discretion, and that the discretion was here exercised by an able judge carefully informed in the matter, I would nevertheless reverse. In my view the unique change in legal circumstances upon which the motion to modify the injunction was based could not properly be ignored in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion. I think it compelled granting the narrow relief from the comprehensive injunction that the Local Inn sought.

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The unique quality of the change in circumstance can only be appreciated by putting the motion to modify in…