Case Name: Judah vs. Chiles, &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1830-01-18
Citations: 3 J.J. Marsh. 302
Docket Number: 
Parties: Judah vs. Chiles, &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 26
Pages: 302–303

Head Matter:
Judah vs. Chiles, &c.
Chancery. Case 89.
January 18.
Error to the Grant Circuit; H. O. Brown, Judge.
Dissolution of injunction. Affidavit. Discharge of injunction. Dismissal of bill.
Chancellor has no right, at appearance term and before filing of answer, to dissolve injunction or dis- ' miss bill, if it contain equity-Omissionto make affidavit that “no previous injunction had been obtained,” ground to dischargi injunction, granted by .justices.

Opinion:
Chief Justice Robertson,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The chancellor has no right, at the appearance term, and before the filing of an answer in the clerk's office,' to dissolve an injunction, if the bill contain equity.
If the complainant shall nave omitted to make affidavit, that he had-obtained no previous injunction, the court may discharge the injunction granted by justices of the peace. But for that omission alone, damages should not be awarded.
An injunction may be discharged for irregularity; it can be dissolved, only for want of equity.
Nor has a chancellor the right to dismiss, at the appearance term, and without answer, a bill contain-, ing equity.
In this case, the injunction was dissolved with damages, and the hill dismissed, before an answer was filed-.
U B. Chambers, for plaintiff; Marshall, for defendants.
The bill exhibits an equitable claim to some relief, if its allegations be true.
Wherefore, the decree of the circuit court is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.