Case Name: Rankin v. Estes, &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1877-11-13
Citations: 13 Bush 428
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rankin v. Estes, &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 76
Pages: 428–430

Head Matter:
Case 43 — PETITION EQUITY
Nov. 13.
Rankin v. Estes, &c.
appeal prom estill circuit court.
1. Upon the dissolution op an injunction to restrain the commission op waste, cutting and removing timber, etc., an action may be maintained to recover such damage as was sustained by reason of the wrongful suing out of the injunction. Section 325 of the Civil Code, requiring the courts to assess the damages upon the dissolution in whole or in part of an injunction, applies only to injunctions “to stay proceedings upon a judgment or final order.”
J. B. WHITE EOR APPELLANT.
1. There is a manifest distinction between injunctions to stay proceedings on judgments, and those enjoining certain other acts. (Myers’s Code, sees. 307, 308.)
2. In. a case like this the damages must necessarily be ascertained after the injunction is dissolved, and by suit on the bond. (Myers’s Code, secs. 307, 308, 325, and notes to sec. 297; Wood v. Laycock, 3 Met. 192; 6 Mon. 396, 397.)
H. C. LILLY EOR APPELLEES.
The appellant is concluded by the trial and judgment dissolving the injunction without awarding damages in his favor. It is clear that the court did not intend to give him any damages, or it would have done so in the judgment dissolving the injunction.

Opinion:
JUDGE ELLIOTT
delivered the opinion op the court.
This appeal is from a judgment in a suit upon an injunction-bond. It appears that some years ago the appellee Estes brought suit against appellant, in which he alleged that appellant had entered on his land and cut down his timber-trees, and cut the timber into raft-logs, and was about to run them to market; and having executed an injunction-bond, he obtained an injunction enjoining the appellant from, removing the timber already cut, and restraining any other waste, etc., to his premises.
On the trial of that suit the injunction was dissolved, and Estes adjudged to pay the cost; and this suit is brought on the injunction-bond to recover damages for the injury sustained by reason of the injunction, and the court gave the jury a peremptory instruction to find for the appellees.
The court doubtless was of opinion that under section 325 of the Civil Code of Practice, no recovery could be had upon the injunction-bond unless, when the injunction was dissolved, the damages had been assessed and fixed by the court; but by a careful scrutiny of that section it will be seen that the court is not required to assess the damages, except " upon the dissolution, in whole or in part, of an injunction to stay proceedings upon a judgment or final order."
As therefore the injunction in the case of Estes, &c. v. Rankin was sued out, not "to stay proceedings upon a judgment or final order," but to restrain the commission of waste, and the cutting of timber, and removing it from the complaining party's premises, we are of the opinion that no assessment of damages, on the dissolution of the injunction by the court, was necessary in order to vest in the appellant a cause of action for such damage as he sustained by reason of the injunction sued out by Estes, &c.
Wherefore the judgment, is. reversed, and cause remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.