18 Colo. App. 369 | Colo. Ct. App. | 1903
This is an action to recover upon an injunction bond. John B. Church, one of appellants, commenced suit against the appellees to secure an accounting, and also praying an injunction restraining defendants from doing and performing certain acts and things in the bill mentioned. The injunction was granted upon the execution by plaintiff Church of a bond, with William Church as surety. Thereafter the defendants appeared and filed at the same time a demurrer to the complaint on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and also a motion to dissolve the injunction. Upon hearing, the demurrer was sustained, and the injunction thereupon dissolved. Soon thereafter, the defendants brought suit upon the injunction bond to recover the- sum of $250.00 alleged to have been expended by them in the matter of the dissolution of the injunction. Upon final hearing of this suit, the defendants therein, the makers of the injunction bond, prevailed, the court directing a verdict in their favor. The main action continued to be prosecuted, and after its final determination, the defendants therein, Baker and Pelt, again instituted suit to recover on the injunction bond, the sole damages claimed being,' as in the former suit, on account of the payment by them of the
It seems clear to us that the injunction here was simply ancillary to the principal relief claimed. The main purpose and object of the suit was to secure an accounting, and this was ultimately had. Plaintiffs were entitled to recover the value of the attorneys’ services in the matter of securing the dissolution of the injunction, and in that matter alone. The parties to the bond could not be held for the value of any legal services rendered in the preparation and trial of the main case. The only evidence given in reference to the character of the legal services rendered was that of the attorney who rendered them, and is undisputed. We make the following excerpt from his evidence, as set forth in the abstract :
“The $250.00 covers the total amount they paid us for services in the cause up to the time the injunction wa& dissolved. The question involved upon the hearing upon which that injunction was dissolved, was whether the facts set forth in the bill showed that the plaintiff was entitled to recover at all against the defendants, and it covered every allegation in the
For these reasons, the judgment will be reversed.
Reversed.