Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1936

O'Donnell v. Lehigh Navigation Coal Co.

O'Donnell v. Lehigh Navigation Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Decided November 30, 1936 · Kephart, Schaefer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern, Barnes
188 A. 348; 324 Pa. 369; 1936 Pa. LEXIS 526

O'Donnell v. Lehigh Navigation Coal Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

The court below did not err in decreeing a mandatory injunction to restore the track pending final disposition of the case. See Jones v. Securities Commission, 298 U. S. 1, 16; Easton Passenger Ry. Co. v. Easton, 133 Pa. 505, 521; Clark v. Martin, 49 Pa. 289; Cooke v. Boynton, 135 Pa. 102; Whiteman v. Fayette Fuel-Gas Co., 139 Pa. 492. “Equity . . . will not allow itself to *370 be baffled by a wrongful change while its aid is being invoked. The modern cases . . . have established the rule that the status quo which will be preserved . . . is the last actual, peaceable, noncontested status which preceded the pending controversy, and [it] will not permit a wrongdoer to shelter himself behind a suddenly . . . changed status . . . ”: Fredericks v. Huber, 180 Pa. 572. While this was said in another case on different facts it is applicable here.

Decree affirmed.

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