Adams v. Oberndorf
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from interlocutory order granting injunction. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Brehtano, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court.
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Appeal from interlocutory order granting injunction. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Theodore Brehtano, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from an interlocutory order granting an injunction, by which appellants are restraine’d until the further order of court from filing any suit against complainant based upon wages alleged to be due from complainant to any of the said defendants during the time defendants or any of them were not actually working for complainant or during the time…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Freeman
The first of the grounds upon which we are asked to reverse the interlocutory order granting the injunction complained of is that equity will not, it is said, assume jurisdiction to prevent a multiplicity of suits at law brought by different persons on different contracts against another; that it must appear from the allegations of the bill that the suits are all alike and at least one has been determined adversely, notwithstanding which the plaintiffs therein continue to vex and harass the complainant with additional suits. We do not degm it necessary to point out at length exact…
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