Case ID: nc_1/html/0027-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Ashe, J. William, J. Spencer, J", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Halifax,
    April Term, 1789.
    MAYFIELD versus HAWKINS,
    THIS was a bill of injunction granted, after a former bill of injunction for the same cause had been dismissed, for not having been served on the defendant in time; for which cause these was a plea in abatement, and on argument the court ordered the plea to be overruled.
   Ashe, J. William, J.

that in future they would not allow such a bill to stand, without affidavit of some particular hardship, and that there is no omission on the part of the complainant.

But

Spencer, J

was clear that a second injunction might be granted, without any such circumstance of hardship.