Livingston v. Gibbons

4 Johns. Ch. 571, 1820 N.Y. LEXIS 186, 1820 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 66

Opinion

The Chancellor

denied the motion as to the first part or branch of the injunction, because such an injunction had already been granted and issued, at the instance of the . . . u plaintiff, against the defendant, on the 3d day of May, 1819,

* an(j a repetition of the injunction, while the former was in force, would be idle and useless, and derogatory to the authority of the Court. If that injunction has been violated, the remedy should be by application for an attachment; or if that injunction has been voluntarily withdrawn by the plaintiff, after it was served, by some arrangement between the parties, (but of which nothing is stated in the bill,)' the fact and the reason of it, and the new grounds for a renewed application, ought to have been fully stated. The motion was also denied as to the second branch of the case, because it did not come within the meaning or equity of the act of the 9th of Jlpril, 1811, entitled, “ an act for the more effectual enforcement of the provisions contained in an act, entitled, an act for the further encouragement of steam boats on the waters of this state, and for other purposes.” The bill charged, that the defendant is daily navigating with his boat, the waters of the state of New-Jersey, as well as. those of this state, and will, unless enjoined, still continue to do so. There is no positive and direct charge of danger,, that the boat will be eloigned, pending the suit at law, or removed out of the jurisdiction of the Court, without an intention to return. Nor can such a charge be made, consistently with the other charges in the bill. The case is not brought within the necessity, and, therefore, not within the intention of the special provision of the act against danger of loss by removal. A remedy so unusual, and so severe, ought not to be extended beyond the plain and necessary construction of the statute.

Motion denied.

Ante, p. 48.