Hearn v. Ruark

This suit grows out of an alleged tomato contract between appellant, plaintiff below, who is a canner, and appellee, defendant below, who is alleged to have grown the tomatoes which are the subject of the suit.

On learning that the tomatoes were not to be delivered to him, plaintiff filed a bill for injunction to restrain defendant “his agents, servants, employees, children and members of his family, they and each of them,” “from selling, delivering or in anyway disposing of the said tomatoes except to the complainant.”

A preliminary injunction was granted, which was subsequently dissolved on…