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FEDERAL REPORTER.
The order will therefore be that an injunction be granted to enjoin the sale of the road upon the payment of the said installment of interest due January 1, 1882, and, if such payment is made, the master will take it into account in making the computation above mentioned.
LEA and another ".
DEAKIN.
(Circuit (lourt, N. D. illinoi8. 1882.) INJUNOTION-DI8sOLUTION-INDEMNIFIOATION-PRAOTIOB.
Where an injunction has been dissolved, the better practice is for the court which issued the injunction to assess the damages caused. by ita issuance, and not compel the party injured to resort to an independent action at law to procure indemnification, if he can thus be indemnified.
Appleton c£. Collier, for plaintiffs. Chas. E. Pope and Geo. C. Christian, for defendant. DRUMMOND, C. J. During the progress of this cause an injunction was issued against the defendant, and afterwards, on application of the defendant, the injunction was continued, upon condition that a bond with proper sureties should be given. There were thus three bonds given in this case. After the case had been decided on the merits in this court in favor of the defendant, and had gone to the supreme court of the Uuited States, and been returned to this court on a stipulation of the parties reversing the ,decree entered in this court, the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their bill at their own cost, and the injunction which was issued in the case was dissolved. Thereupon the defendant moved the court to assess the damages which he had sustained in consequence· of the issuing and continuance of the injunction. The litigation between these parties has been one of long standing, and this court has decided, on suits which have been brought upon s.ome of the injunction bonds given during the progress of the suit, that as there was no order of this court assessing the damages of the defendant, suits could not be maintained upon the bonds. Deakin v. Stanton, 3 FED. REP. 435; Deakin V. Lea, 14 Chi. Leg. News, 297. The condition of these bonds was as follows: The first, "to pay all damages and costs that shall be awarded against said plaintiffs, and in favor of said defendant, Frank Deakin, upon the trial or final hearing of the matters referred to in said bill of complaint;" in
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the second, "to pay all damages and costs that shall be awarded against said Lea & Perrins, complainants, and in favor of said defendant, Frank Deakin, upon the trial or final hearing of the said cause;" and in the third, "to pay all damages and costg that may be awarded against said Lea & Perrins, complainants, and in favor of said Frank Deakin, defendant, upon the trial or final hearing of said cause, or upon the dissolution of said injunction, by reason of the wrongful or improper issuance of said injunction." upon these several conditions The construction put by the was that they referred to damages to be assessed by the court in which the suit was pending, and under whose order the injunction bond had been given, following the case of Bien v. Heath, 12 How. 168. What was said in that case as to the right of a court of chancery to assess the damages against a party at whose instance an injunction had been obtained, has been modified by the opinion of the supreme court in the case of Russell v. Farley, decided at the last term, in which the English authorities are fully considered; and it seems to be intimated that a court of chancery has the inherent power to assess the damages under such circumstances. 4 Morr. Trans. 410. We think this view is more in accordance with the principles of equity practice against a party in whose favor the injunction is granted. That court orders the injunction, prescribes the terms upon which it shall be issued, and may require a bond, stipulation, or undertaking as a condition upon which it shall be issued or not, &Mording to its own view of the circumstances of the case. An assessment of damages thus becomes an incident of the principal to do entire equi\Y between the parties. case, and enables the If the party against whom the injunction has been issued can thus be indemnified, it would seem to be the duty of the court to proceed in the case, and not compel him to resort to an independent action at law to accomplish that result. The litigation which has grown out of the controversy in .this case, and the suits which have been brought upon some of the bonds, have induced the district judge and myself to fully consider this question in the light of all the authorities which have been presented, and we have come to the conclusion that the sounder and better rule is for the court of chancery, where an injunction has been dissolved, go on and assess the damages which the party against whom it issued has sustained, and it will accordingly be considered hereafter that practice may be adopted in this court.
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HmERNIA INS.
CO.
V. ST.
LOUIS &
NEW ORLEANS TRANSP.
CO.-
(Circuit Court, E. D. MiB8ouri. September 28, 1882.) 1. CORPORA'I'IONB-FRAUDULENT TRANSFER Ol!' ASSETSI
EqUity will not permit the stockholders in one corporation to organize another, and transfer all the corporate property of the former to the latter, withont paying all the corporate debts. .
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SAME-ENFOROEMENT Ol!' OBLIGATIONS.
Where such a transfer is mafie, the obligations of the old corporation may be enforced against the new to the extent of the assets received by it.
For report of opinion on the demurrer to the bill in this case, see 10 FED. REP. 596. O. B. Sansum and George II. Shields, for plaintiff. Given Campbell and Thomas J. Portis, for defendant. MCCRARY, C. J. This case has been considered upon the plea interposed by the defendant to the fifth subdivision of the bill, aud the proofs adduced in support of the same. The bill alleges that the complainant is, by subrogation to the rights of certain shippers, a. creditor of the Babbage Transportation Company, a corporation of Missouri, and that, after the creation of the indebtedness, said corporation transferred all its property to the St. Louis & New Orleans TransportatIOn Company, another Missouri corporation, withoutmaking provision for the payment of complainant's claim. It is alleged that Henry LOUl'ey, being the President of said Babbage Transportation Company, and the principal owner of the stock thereof, organized the said St. Louis & New Orleans Transportation Company, and caused all the property of the former to be sold and transferred to the latte·r, without paying or securing the debt due the complainant. It is averred that the said sale was made witnout the payment of any consideration by said St. Louis & New Orleans Transportafollows the followina allegations, to which the tion Company. . "Fifth. And your orators charge that said sale and transfer of the property of said Babbage Transportation Company to the said defendant, St. Lonis &New Orl&'tns Transportation Compa,ny, was fraudulent us against the rights of the complainants, creditors of the said Babbage Transportation Company, and that the said Henry Lourey and the said St. Louis & New Orleans Transportation Company had notice of said fraud; and so your orators allege and charge that said St. Louis & New Orleans Transportation Company was not a bona fide purchaser of said property for a full and valuable consideration, 0Repol'te<1 by B. F. Rex, Esq., of the St. Louis bar.