86 Iowa 597 | Iowa | 1892
The record shows that on September 6, 1887, in an action brought by E. B. G-arden and others against Patrick Mullen and Ann Mullen, in Clayton district court, it was adjudged by the court that the defendants therein had been keeping and maintaining a liquor nuisance in a building situated on lot 5 in fractional block 5, in the village of Elkader, in said county. By the decree, “It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that said nuisance be abated, and that the temporary injunction heretofore granted in this case be, and the same is hereby, made perpetual, and the defendants Patrick Mullen and Ann Mullen are hereby perpetually enjoined from further keeping and maintaining said place, as hereinbefore described, as a place for the sale of intoxicating liquors,
Under Code, section 2689, providing for amendments, it has been held that this court would permit the filing of an amended assignment of errors in' furtherance of justice. Stanley v. Barringer, 74 Iowa, 38; Loughran v. City of Des Moines, 72 Iowa, 384. The right to file such amended assignment is recognized in several cases. Brown v. Rose, 55 Iowa, 737; Kendig
To our minds it is immaterial whether the defendants, in fact, knew of the injunction or not. It was not directed against them; it did not attach to the property as against th¿m; it simply, by its terms, enjoined the defendants in the injunction suit from doing or permitting certain things to be done. An injunction is an extraordinary remedy, and its force and legal effect should not be extended by implication. Counsel for the plaintiff do not cite any authority, nor do we find any which would justify his contention that a decree worded as this is should be held to attach to, or follow the real estate into the hands of, a purchaser or his lessees. As our view of this question is decisive