Case Name: GENERAL ACC., FIRE & LIFE ASSUR. CO., Limited, v. KELLY
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1916-01
Citations: 157 N.Y.S. 1106
Docket Number: 
Parties: GENERAL ACC., FIRE & LIFE ASSUR. CO., Limited, v. KELLY.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 157
Pages: 1106–1107

Head Matter:
(93 Misc. Rep. 320)
GENERAL ACC., FIRE & LIFE ASSUR. CO., Limited, v. KELLY.
(Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.
January, 1916.)
Injunction <®=>163(1)—Tempokaby Injunction—Continuance.
Where a motion to continue an injunction restraining defendant from procuring a warrant of attachment against plaintiff’s property is based on a written agreement between the parties obligating defendant to refrain from taking such action, except under certain nonexisting circumstances, the motion will be denied, where all of the parties to the agreement had apparently disregarded it in one way or another.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. §§ 357, 383, 364, 368; Dec. Dig. <S=»163(1).]
other cases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes
Action by the General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Company, Limited, against John A. Kelly. Heard on motion to continue injunction. Denied.
Beekman, Menken & Griscom, of New York City (S. S. Menken, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.
Cardozo & Nathan, of New York City (Michael H. Cardozo, Jr., of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.

Opinion:
FORD, J.
Plaintiff moves for the continuance of an injunction restraining the defendant "from procuring any warrant of attachment against the property of the plaintiff." The motion is based on the terms of a written agreement between the parties whereby the defendant obligates himself to refrain from talcing such action, except under certain nonexistent circumstances. The complaint prays that the injunction be made permanent. Aside from the highly doubtful propriety of granting upon affidavits the full relief asked for by way of .final judgment, it is also doubtful whether the defendant is entitled in any event to the injunction because of its breach of the agreement whose terms are invoked as the basis of the plaintiff's cause of action. It appears to me that no one of the three parties to that agreement has observed its terms, but, on the contrary, all have seemingly dis regarded its provisions in one way or another. Plaintiff seeks to deprive this ostensible creditor of a substantial right conferred by stat-* ute upon him in common with all other creditors of the plaintiff. Whether or not this discrimination against him would in any event be warranted in law, the very least that the court should require before ordering it is that the plaintiff establish the facts upon which he relies with reasonable certainty. This it has failed to do, and the motion will be denied.
Motion denied.