82 N.Y.S. 148 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1903
The question before the court upon the motion was whether the defendant Hammer was entitled to recover the damages which he may have sustained by reason of the preliminary injunction. This depends upon whether or not the plaintiff was entitled to that injunction; and this latter turns upon whether the discontinuance of the action upon the request of the plaintiff and against the objection of the defendant was a determination that he was not entitled to it. The Special Term thought that the discontinuance of the action under the circumstances shown was not a determination that the plaintiff was not entitled to the injunction, basing its conclusion upon the two cases of Palmer v. Foley (71 N. Y. 106) and Apollinaris Co. v. Venable (136 id. 46) and denied the motion.
A reference, however, to Palmer v. Foley (supra) will show that therein the action was discontinued by consent. Nor do we think that Apollinaris Co. v. Venable (supra) is an authority for the view taken by the Special Term because it will be noticed that the decision was limited to the facts before the court, and in the opinion it was said: “ The sureties upon such an undertaking may be held in some cases, although there has been no formal adjudication against the right to the temporary injunction. Where the plaintiff ecu parte, and without the consent of the defendants, enters an order vacating the injunction and discontinuing the action, this is equivalent to an ad j ndication that the plaintiff was not entitled to the injunction when granted. The purpose of requiring an undertaking would be thwarted if in such a case the sureties were not held. (Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. Toel, 85 N. Y. 646.) ” In this latter case it was said: “ The orders vacating the injunction and discontinuing the action * * * are in effect a determination, or at least equivalent to a determination, that the plaintiff was not entitled to the injunction granted.”
The order accordingly should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted, with ten dollars costs.
Yah Brunt, P. J., Ingraham, McLaughlin and Laughlin, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.