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truth of .the facts set out in the bill of complaint, which is supported facts must, therefore, for the purposes of the by present application for a temporary restraining order, be taken to be true. Assuming all the facts so alleged to be true, in my opini\on a case is presented which entitles the complainant to invoke the judgment of the court as to whether or not the ordinance in question will practically deprive it of its property without due process of law, and also deprive it of the equal protection of the law by compelling it to sell artificial gas without any return therefor in the way of profit. Whether a temporar,Y restraining order ought to be granted pending such judicial inquiry will depend largely on the character and extent of the inconvenience or injury to the one party or the other from the granting or refusing of it. It is settled that upon a preliminary application for a temporary restraining order all that the judge should, as a general rule, require, is a case of probable right, and of probable danger to that right without the interference of the court, and its discretion should then be regulated by the balance of inconvenience or injury to the one party or the other. New Memphis Gas & Light Co. v. City of Memphis, 72 Fed. 952. It is evident, if the restraining order is refused, and the ordinance should eventually be held invalid, the injury resulting to the complainant from its enforcement would be practically irremediable, because of the number of its patrons and the small amount to be recovered from each. On the other hand, if a temporary restraining order is granted until the validity of the or· dinance can be judicially determined, the rights of the city can be fully protected by requiring the complainant to give a bond that it will pay to the city the amount collected by it in excess of the rate prescribed by the ordinance in the event that such ordinance shall be adjudged to be valid. The court, therefore, will award a temporary restraining order pendente lite, and until the further order of the court, as prayed for in the bill of complaint, upon the complainant entering into an undertaking with sureties to the approval of the clerk of this court in substance as follows: ''We undertake and promIse to pay to the cIty of Indianapolis a sum equal to two-fifths (2-1$) of all sums of money collected or received by the IndianapoUs Gas Oompany from or on account of the sale of artlflcial gas during the pendency of the temporary restraining order in the above-entitled cause, without any rellef Whatever from valuation or appraisement laws, and with attor· ney's fees, If the saId Indianapolis Gas Company shall fall to obtain a perpetual injunction as prayed for In Its bill of complaint."
The clerk will enter a temporary restraining order as prayed for in the bill of complaint upon the giving of the undertaking' as above required. NATIONAl" S. S. 00., Limited, 1. V.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. JUly 21, 1897.) APl'EAL AND EnRon-JuDGlIIENT AFTER HEMOVAL.
Where removal of a cause to the United States circuit court Is denied by a state court, and affirmed by the appellate and supreme courts of the state, but reversed, on appeal, by the supreme court of the United States,
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and remanded to the state court, with directions to accept the bond tendered, and proceed no further in the case, a judgment In favor of the appellant for costs in the various courts, thereupon rendered by the state court, is a nullity. 2. JUDGMENTS IN SAME CASE'-FAILURE TO OFFSET COSTs-EQUITABLE RELIEF.
'Where removal of a cause has been denied by a state court, and it is carried by successive appeals to the supreme court of the United States, where it is reversed because removal was improperly denied, and the cause then proceeds in the United States circuit court, where, on final hearing, judgment is rendered against the appellant, he may, on motion, have his judgment for costs on rjlversal in the supreme CQurt set olr against or deducted from the amount of the recovery; and, It he talls to avall himself of this right, he cannot afterwards assert It in an equity proceeding. Where a judgment Is properly allowed to be set off against another, the decree should include interest thereon at the legal rate from the date of the judgment.
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SET·OFF-!NTEREST ON JUDGMENT.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. . . John Chetwood (J. Parker Kirlin, of counsel), for appellant. WiUard U.Taylor, for appellee. Before WALLACE, LACOMBE, and SHIPMAN, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM. The proposition need not be controverted that upon the appeal of the complainant, the defendant in the suit in the state court, the appellate courts had jurisdiction to review the judg· mentappealed from, and, if a reversal had been adjudged, would have been authorized to order a judgment for the costs of the suit in his favor. But there was no judgment of reversal, or for costs, by either of the appellate courts. Consequently, upon the reversal by the supreme court of the judgment in the state court (because the suit had been properly reIl10ved to the United States circuit court, and thereafter the state court was without power to proceed further), the only authority of the state court was such as was conferred by the mandate of the supreme court. That mandate directed the state court to "accept the bond tendered" by the complainant, and "proceed no further in the cause." 1 Sup. Ct. 58. Thereafter all thitthe state court could properly do in the cause was to make the mandate its judgment. No action upon its part could add to, any more than it could detract from, the force of the mandate. The mandate did not direct the state court to render any judgment for costs in· favor of the complainant. The general clause remanding the cause to the state. court "in order that such execution and further proceedings may be had in the cause, in conformity to the judgment and the decree of this court above stated, as, according to right and justice and the constitution and laws of the United States, ought to be had therein," was not intended to Qverride or modify the specific injunction to "proceedilo further in the cause," but was inserted merely to authorize the state court to carry the mandate into execution by appropriate entries in the records Qf tM court. It follows that the judgment ther.eafter rendered by thestl:l;te qmrt, awarding the the costs ·of the action therein, including the appeals, was a nullity.
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iUter the reversal by the supreme court, when the cause proceeded in the, United States circuit court to which it had originally been properly removed, and a recovery was adjudged against the complainant upon the merits, it was open to him to apply to have his judgment for the costs of the reversal awarded by the supreme court set off against or deducted from the amount of the recovery. It was a judgment in the, same cause. Having neglected to avail himself of this right, he has no standing to assert it in the present action. A court of equity will not assist a party to a remedy of which he could have availed himself in a llourt of law without expense, delay, or inconvenience to his adversary, but which he ,has deliberately neglected to assert. By his inaction, then, and by subsequently filing the bill 'in the present cause, the complainant has delayed his adversary for more than five years in collecting a just demand. The ,court below, as appears by the opinion of Judge Wheeler (67 Fed. 16), intended to permit the other judgment of the complainant to be set off against the judgment of the present defendant. The interest upon this judgment was incident to it, and necessarily a part of it; but in formulating the decree nothing was stated respecting interest. The omission may have been a clerical oversight, or may have been considered of no materiality. If the appellant desires, the decree will be modified so that the amount to be offset shall include interest at the legal rate from the date of the rendition of that judgment. The decree of the circuit court is otherwise atllrmed, and the cause is remitted to, that court to decree in conformity with this opinion, with costs of this appeal against the complainant.
UNITED STATES RUBBER CO. et al. v. AMERICAN OAK LEATHER CO. METROPOLITAN NAT. BANK v. SAME. (Circuit Court of Seventh Circuit. Nos. 387, 3S8. L CIRCWT COURTS01/' ..... A.PPEA.L FROM INTERLOCUTORY DECREE "TENll' ,OF HEVlIllW., '
October 4, 1897.)
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'FIU:o'DULE:NT BUSINESS A:aRANGEMENT -
, On appeal from an interlocutory order, in determining whether an in,utlction' was properly granted in connection with the, appointment of a , receiver, the propriety!>! the entire order or decree IIUlybe considered, notwithstanqI,ng, the statutes do not provide for an appeal, from an order appointing a receiver. i INJUNCTION AND 'RECEIVER.
Where ;appellants joined in an arrangement for extending additional 'credit to an, insolvent, 'business corporation, whose insolvency was not known, wheJ;eby, it WBB ,enabled to continue in business without apparent change of management, in consideration of receiving from the debtor corporation j'udgm,ent notes for their' entire indebtedness and being permitted to substitute their own appointees fot the secretary and a majority of the