Leigh v. Kewanee Mfg. Co.
Leigh v. Kewanee Mfg. Co.
Opinion of the Court
after stating the facts, delivered the ■opinion.
The averments of the bill and answer upon which the injunction was obtained are fully set forth in Kewanee Manufacturing Com
The suit at law was enjoined after it had proceeded to verdict and motion for new trial overruled. Nothing remained in that suit but judgment. But for the injunction the judgment presumably would have been entered at once, and satisfied at once, either by payment or execution. The effect" of the injunction suit was to delay this satisfaction — to hang the suit at law in the air — and cause defendant in error to follow the equity case into the Circuit Court, and take it finally to the Circuit Court of Appeals. It is our judgment that an injunction, thus hanging up at the last moment the entry of judgment, but upon condition exacted by the court, and accepted by the plaintiff in error, that in case the injunction was dissolved, the verdict and the judgment thereon should be paid in full, is, in effect, a stipulation in court that all errors in the suit at law, up to the granting of the injunction, are waived and released. Otherwise the condition exacted for the injunction, and accepted and acted upon, would be wholly ineffective — resulting in the plaintiff in error having obtained all he asked, and being permitted to cast off with impunity all that was required of him.
The demurrer to the plea of release of errors, is overruled, the plea is sustained; and, there being no assignmnt of error outside of those released, the judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- LEIGH v. KEWANEE MFG. CO.
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