Burton v. Marshall
Court of Appeals of Maryland
This was an appeal from the equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill, in this case, was filed by Ethelbert A. Marshall, on the 8th October 1846, and founded upon the following contract, made by a certain C. S. T. Burke, for himself and wife, by which it was alleged she was bound :— “ Philadelphia, Isi May 1846. “ Charles Burke, and his wife Margaret, now of Philadelphia Museum, are engaged to perform under the direction of E. A. Marshall, or his agent, at either The…
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This was an appeal from the equity side of Baltimore county court. The bill, in this case, was filed by Ethelbert A. Marshall, on the 8th October 1846, and founded upon the following contract, made by a certain C. S. T. Burke, for himself and wife, by which it was alleged she was bound :— “ Philadelphia, Isi May 1846. “ Charles Burke, and his wife Margaret, now of Philadelphia Museum, are engaged to perform under the direction of E. A. Marshall, or his agent, at either The Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, or The Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, at a salary of twenty dollars each, for a…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
In considering the propriety of the injunction before us, it may not perhaps be out of place to refer to some of the familiar and well established rules which should be observed in reference to the issue of such writs. In 2 Story’s Eq., sec. 959a, it is stated, “that the granting,, or refusing of injunctions, is a matter resting in the sound discretion of a court of equity, and, consequently, no injunction will be granted, wherever it will operate oppressively;” “or where it is not the fit and appropriate mode of redress, under all the circumstances of the case; or where it will or may work…
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