Cress v. Hook
Cress v. Hook
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
The appellee sued the appellants before a justice of the peace on an injunction bond and obtained judgment; and on appeal by the defendants to the Circuit Court, again recovered, but for a smaller sum. The court upon request of the parties found the facts specially and made a statement of legal conclusions thereon. Error is assigned upon these conclusions and upon the overruling of a demurrer to the complaint. Counsel, however, have discussed but one question, though with reference to the complaint and to the conclusions of law. The objection as made to the complaint is that there is a variance between the averments of the complaint as to what the injunction was, and the copy of the injunction filed therewith. There is nothing in the objection, no matter how wide the variance. The injunction bond is the foundation of the action and a copy thereof must have been filed in order to make the complaint good, but the copy of the record of the injunction suit ought not to have been filed, because not the basis of the action. It was superfluous and its contents cannot be considered as adding to or 'detracting from the complain:. The cases on this subject are numerous and citation unnecessary.
The same question recurs in reference to the conclusions of law. We therefore state enough of the case to afford a proper understanding of the point to be decided.
The complaint shows that at the time of the issuing of the injunction against him, the plaintiff was employed as a clerk and salesman in a certain drug store at a salary of fifty-five dollars per month, and that the defendants lessees and another instituted an
We cannot agree with counsel that this order does not support the averment of the complaint. If the plaintiff refrained -from doing the things thereby forbidden him, it is difficult to see that there was left to him anything to do in “pursuing his said employment” as a clerk in said drug store. As the whole argument of counsel turns upon this point, we have deemed it unnecessary to give any fuller statement of the record.
Judgment affirmed with costs.
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