94 Ky. 478 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1893
delivered the orriaoir of the court.
The appellant, desiring to prevent the appellee from crossing its track at grade at a point south-east of Ashland, Kentucky, on November 2, 1892, filed its petition in the Boyd Circuit Court, and obtained an injunction appropriate for the purpose sought. After filing its answer and counter-claim, and giving notice of motion to dissolve the injunction, the appellee filed a general demurrer to the petition. It was sustained, as was also the motion to dissolve. The plaintiff declining to amend or further plead, its petition was ■dismissed, and a judgment for the costs of thp action was rendered against it. From this judgment the plaintiff was granted an appeal to this court, where it is still pending. It executed in the office of the lower court a supersedeas bond, the force and effect of which on the order of injunction theretofore granted is the .sole question on the motion now under consideration. The appellee, contending that the injunction was no longer in force, proceeded to construct its line of street railway across the track of the appellant at the point where it had been prohibited from building its line, doing its. work in the night, and without the knowledge or consent of the appellant; hence this proceeding to punish the appellee for contempt. Therefore, as has been said, the question is as to the legal effect ■of the execution of the supersedeas bond with respect to the injunction.
It is contended, however, that the injunction was dissolved pendente lite, and the supersedeas issued on an interlocutory judgment; that, while final in form, the judgment was not so in fact. As we have seen, the defendant filed an answer and counter-claim.. It is claimed that “the cardinal fact of plaintiff’s petition was the impracticability of joint occupancy at. the point of the proposed intersection, and the cardinal fact of the counter-claim was the converse of this averment;” that, therefore, the counter-claim not-being disposed of by the judgment, the case to that extent is still pending, and the order sustaining the demurrer and dismissing the petition, with costs, is not a final order; that the supersedeas, therefore, was-
It is said, however, that as the judgment of the dismissal and dissolution gave the plaintiff leave to apply for a reinstatement of the injunction, and continued it in force for twenty days after its rendition, the remedy was by such application, and not by the execution of the supersedeas bond. It seems clear to us that such a remedy was not open to the plaintiff. In Pendergest v. Heekin, 94 Ky., 384, it was distinctly held that when, on final judgment, an injunction is dissolved, the right to apply for reinstatement does not exist, but that the only remedy is by an appeal. But, say counsel for the appellee, the plaintiff is about to construct an additional track at the point of the proposed intersection, thus so changing the situation that the appellee may not be able to enforce its judgment after it shall have obtained it. It seems to us, however, that, while this may be a matter for future inquiry and regulation, it