131 Ala. 405 | Ala. | 1901
The condition to liability -on -an injunction bond is the dissolution of the injunction. The liability on the bond when the injunction has been dissolved is for all damages and costs sustained by any person in consequence of the suing out of the writ. This liability is by no means limited in respect of costs and -charges incurred by the persons enjoined to'such as are incident to efforts to have the injunction dissolved. Those are not the only costs and -charges which approximately result from the issuance of the writ and grow out of efforts on the part of the respondents affected by it to be relieved from its operation. The fees of counsel for investigation of respondents’ status -and rights with reference to the injunction, and for his ad-rice thereon, and for -services rendered in any proceeding or effort the purpose of which, and the effect of which if successful, is to lift the restraint of the writ, whether this be sought- to be done through a motion to dissolve, the injunction, or a motion to discharge it, or through a motion to dismiss the bill for want of equity or -a dismissal of it -on plealings and proof at the hearing where, as in the case at bar, injunctive relief is the sole purpose and prayer -of the bill, constitute damages sustained by the suing out of the injunction, and are recoverable as such by suit- on the bond when the injunction lias in point of fact- been in any
Affirmed.