107 F. 165 | 9th Cir. | 1901
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
A motion is made to dismiss the appeal upon the ground that no appeal lies from the order from which it is attempted to be taken. The fight to appeal to the circuit court of appeals from an inter
“That where, upon a hearing- in equity in a district court, or in an existing circuit court, an injunction shall be granted or continued by an interlocutory order or decree, * * * an appeal may be taken from such interlocutory order or decree granting or continuing such injunction to the circuit court of appeals.” 26 Stat. 828.
By the act of February 18, 1895, section 7 was amended to read as follows:
“That where, upon a hearing in equity in a district court or a circuit court, an injunction shall be granted, continued, refused, or dissolved by an interlocutory order or decree or an application to dissolve an injunction shall be refused * * * an appeal may be taken from such interlocutory order or decree granting, continuing, refusing, dissolving, or refusing to dissolve an injunction to the circuit court of appeals.” 2 Supp. Rev. St. p. 376.
By the act of June 6, 1900, it was provided that the seventh section of the act of 1891 be amended to read as follows:
“That where, upon a hearing in equity in a district court or in a circuit coui-t, or by a judge thereof in vacation, an injunction shall be granted or continued or a receiver appointed, hy an interlocutory order or decree, =s * * an appeal may he taken from such interlocutory order or decree granting or continuing such injunction or appointing such receiver to the circuit court of appeals.”
It will be observed that the act of June 6,1900, amends the seventh section of the judiciary act of 1891, without expressly referring to the amendment of February 18, 1895. We think there can be no doubt that the last act was valid, notwithstanding that it purports to amend a section of the original act which had already been amended by the act of 1895, and that its enactment necessarily operated to repeal the amendment of 1895. Wire Co. v. Boyce (C. C. A.) 104 Fed. 172, and cases there cited. The law, therefore, by which the present motion to dismiss must he ruled, is the act of June 6, 1900; and the question arises whether the appeal in the present instance is an appeal from an order appointing a receiver or granting or continuing an injunction. It is admitted that it is not an appeal from an order appointing a receiver. The order appointing a receiver was made some eight months before the entry of the order which is appealed from, it is contended, however, that the appeal Is from an order continuing an injunction, for the reason that the order appointing the receiver proceeded to direct the appellant to deliver to the receiver the possession of the property which is in controversy, and enjoined him from interfering with the receiver’s possession; and it is said that by virtue of such provision tbe order became also an injunction order, — an order from which an appeal might have been taken irrespective of the order appointing the receiver, — and that the action of the court in entering the order which is appealed from, although that order did not embody an injunction or continue an injunction, but dismissed the appellant’s application fco net aside the injunction, was nevertheless, in its nature, an order continuing: an injunction, and was therefore appealable. The appellant cites In re Tampa Suburban R. Co., 168 U. S. 583, 18 Sup. Ct. 177, 42 L. Ed. 589; Association v. Storrow, 34 C. C. A. 182, 92