Case Name: SUESSKIND et al. v. BINGHAM, Police Com'r, et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1908-05-08
Citations: 110 N.Y.S. 213
Docket Number: 
Parties: SUESSKIND et al. v. BINGHAM, Police Com’r, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 110
Pages: 213–215

Head Matter:
SUESSKIND et al. v. BINGHAM, Police Com’r, et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
May 8, 1908.)
Injunction—Subjects of Pbotection and Relief—Criminal Prosecutions.
Equity is without jurisdiction at the instance of the proprietors or lessees of a dance hall let for hire on Sunday, in alleged violation of the Sunday observance law, to grant an injunction restraining interference by the police, and the remedy, if any, is by an action at law against the individual officers for damages or indictment of them for interference with the property or business.
[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 27, Injunction, §§ 178, 179.]
Laughlin, X, dissenting.
Appeal from Special Term.
Action by injunction by Adolph Suesskind and others against Theodore A. Bingham, as police commissioner, and others. From an order continuing, during the pendency of the action, the temporary injunction granted, defendants appeal. Reversed.
Argued before INGRAHAM, McLAUGHLIN, LAUGHLIN, CLARKE, and SCOTT, JJ.
Theodore Connoly, for appellants.
Charles O. Maas, for respondents.

Opinion:
INGRAHAM, J.
It is quite impossible to see upon what ground the police co Id claim that these plaintiffs were violating any statute upon the facts here presented. The same question is presented, however, as in the case of Eden Musee American Co. v. Bingham (decided herewith) 110 N. Y. Supp. 210, and plaintiff's remedy is not by injunction, but by an action at law against the individual officers, or an indictment if their property or business is interfered with.
The order appealed from is. reversed, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion for an injunction denied, with $10 costs. All concur, except LAUGHLIN, J., who dissents.