Case Name: Levi R. Camp v. John Bryan et al.
Court: Illinois Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1876-09
Citations: 84 Ill. 250
Docket Number: 
Parties: Levi R. Camp v. John Bryan et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Reports
Volume: 84
Pages: 250–250

Head Matter:
Levi R. Camp v. John Bryan et al.
Injunction — damages on dissolution, enjoining collection of judgment. It is error to allow damages upon the dissolution of an injunction enjoining the collection of a judgment at law, in excess of ten per cent upon the amount of the judgment.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding.
' Mr. W. Davis, and Mr. R. C. Hunt, for the appellant.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Dickey
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The damages allowed on the dissolution of the injunction enjoining the collection of a judgment, are limited by statute to ten per cent upon the amount. Rev. Stat. 1874, p. 579. The damages allowed in this case are $50. The amount of the judgment enjoined was less than $184. For this error the decree must he reversed. It is by no means clear upon this record, that the injunction should not have been made perpetual. The bill charges a fraudulent conspiracy to use, to the detriment of appellant, a paper-called an indemnity, whicli, it seems from the record, was never executed and delivered by appellant; of all which, the bill says, the alleged conspirators had notice. If this be true, appellant has a right, in equity, to have that document, and the judgment upon it, adjudged null and.void.
Judgment reversed.