Portis v. Fall
Cases that cite this one
5 later published cases cite this decision.
- State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Karston (Ark. 1945)
- Jacob Hoffman Brewing Co. v. McElligott (2d Cir. 1919)
- Clardy v. State (Ark. 1910)
- Dreyfus v. Boone (Ark. 1908)
- State ex rel. Circuit Attorney v. Uhrig (Mo. Ct. App. 1883)
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Opinion of the Court
William N. Portis was arrested on warrants issued by Benjamin E. Eall, a justice of the peace of Jefferson county, and other magistrates, on charges of violating the law of the state by setting up and exhibiting a gambling device called keno, within the limits of Pine Bluff.
In October, 1877, he filed a bill on the chancery side of the circuit court of Jefferson county, praying an injunction against the prosecutions, and a temporary injunction was granted.
Afterwards a demurrer was sustained to the bill; the injunction dissolved; the bill, dismissed for want of equity, and Portis appealed.
A court of equity will not exercise jurisdiction by way of injunction to stay proceedings in any criminal matters, or in any case not strictly of a civil nature. 2 Story Equity Jurisprudence (12 Ed.), sec. 893; Bispham’s Prin. Equity, sec. 424.
Affirmed.
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