Summary
In Spears v. Mathews (supra) the same question was again up in the Court of Appeals, and the court in that case held that the court had no power after judgment against the plaintiff in an action, and pending an appeal by him therefrom, to grant an injunction or to revive or continue a temporary injunction.
Summary of this case from Carpenter v. FisherOpinion
Argued April 25, 1876
Decided April 28, 1876
Thomas Allison for the appellant. E.N Taft for the respondents.
The precise question involved in this appeal was decided adversely to the respondents by this court in Fellows v. Heermans (reported in 13 Abb. Pr. [N.S.], 1), where it was held that the court had no power to revive or continue a temporary injunction obtained by the plaintiff, after judgment against him in the action pending his appeal from the judgment.
The decision was made by a divided court, but a majority of the judges agreed to the judgment pronounced in that case, and the question here presented was considered and distinctly passed upon. The court were of the opinion that the Code defined and limited the power of the court in respect to granting injunctions, and that the right to an injunction in any case, if it existed, was to be found in the provisions of the Code. This decision was referred to in Erie Railway Company v. Ramsey ( 45 N.Y., 637) as establishing this proposition. The question is, therefore, res adjudicata, and we do not deem it useful to restate the grounds upon which this court based its decision. It may be that the power of the court to continue an injunction pending an appeal from an order or judgment dissolving it ought to exist, but this is a question for the legislature.
The order should be reversed.
All concur.
Order reversed.