Case ID: how-pr_12/html/0464-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Morris, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SUPREME COURT.»
    Rateau agt. Bernard and others.
    An injunction should not be allowed or sustained on an affidavit or verified complaint, where the material allegations are made merely on information and belief.
    
      New- York Special Term,
    
    
      Nov., 1854.
    Motion to dissolve injunction made on complaint and answer,
    James Morrogh, for plaintiff.
    
    
      C. Bainbridge Smith, for defendants.
    
   Morris, Justice.

The complaint in this case is verified by James Morrogh, Esq., the attorney for the plaintiff, and is entirely upon information and belief.

The plaintiff is a citizen and resident of France. Mr. Morrogh states his information is obtained from letters written to him by the plaintiff, by information from merchants and others in the city of New-York, and from duly legalized certified copies of letters.

Mr. Morrogh does not verify a single material fact upon his own knowledge.

An injunction should not be allowed or sustained on an affidavit or verified complaint, where the material allegations are made merely on information and belief. (1 Code Rep. 114; 3 Prac. R. 327; 5 P. R. 327—and authorities there cited.)

The injunction must be dissolved.