57 N.Y.S. 975 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1899
Upon affidavits and a verified complaint, the plaintiff moved for a temporary injunction and for the appointment of a receiver pendente lite. The motion was denied and the plaintiff has appealed. The action was brought as a judgment creditor’s action under sections 1871 to 1879, and the injunction was sought under section 1876 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Section 1876 provides that a temporary injunction restraining the transfer to any person, or the payment or delivery to the judgment debtor of any money, thing in action or other property or interest, which may by the provisions of the article relating to judgment creditors’" actions be applied' to> the satisfaction of the sum due the plaintiff, may be granted.in the action,', but the injunction and the proceedings before and after'it is granted are governed by the provisions of article 1 of title 2 of chapter 7 of the Code of Civil Procedure, for which purpose the injunction ' is deemed to be one of those specified in section 603.
Section 603 provides that “ where it appears from the complaint that the plaintiff demands and is entitled to a judgment against the defendant, restraining 'the commission or continuance of an act, the commission or continuance of which, during the pendency of the action, wouldprodioce injury to the plaintiff, an injunction order may be granted to restrain it.”
Section 604 provides for the granting of an injunction where the right thereto depends upon facts established by affidavits. Section 607 provides that “ the order may be granted where it appears to the court or judge by the affidavit of the plaintiff,' or any other person, that sufficient grounds exist therefor.” It has been held
Treating the complaint in the case before us as an affidavit, it, in connection with the other affidavits, established the following facts : That the defendant is a foreign corporation doing business and having an office for the regular transaction of business in this State; that the plaintiff prior to the commencement of this action recovered a judgment against the defendant for $426.78; that the judgment roll was filed and judgment docketed in, and execution issued thereon to the sheriff of the county of New York; that the execution was returned wholly unsatisfied, and the judgment remains unpaid, except that the sum of $100 has been paid to apply thereon; that for several years the defendant has owned and published in the pity of New York a monthly periodical called Fashions / that it is engaged in such city in the printing business, in connection with which it has a large amount of personal property consisting of printing presses, paper-cutting machines, tools, etc., worth at least $15,000; that in June, 1898, it made a mortgage to the Colonial Trust Company to secure the payment of such bonds as it might thereafter issue, not exceeding $20,000 in amount; that the plaintiff does not know and cannot learn the amount of bonds that have been issued under this mortgage, and that on a.certain day the office of the defendant was closed between two and three o’clock in the
The moving papers^ as we have already seen, did not establish
The order appealed from must be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to the respondent.
Van Brunt, P. J., Patterson, O’Brien and Ingraham, JJ., concurred.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.