Case Name: Parker & Parker vs. Wakeman
Court: New York Court of Chancery
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1843-11-24
Citations: 10 Paige Ch. 485
Docket Number: 
Parties: Parker & Parker vs. Wakeman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Paige's Chancery Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 485–485

Head Matter:
Parker & Parker vs. Wakeman.
1843. November 24.
Where the defendant in a creditor’s suit, after the service of the ordinary injunction upon him, proceeds to judgment in a suit which he had previously commenced against a third party, it is not such a breach of the injunction as will authorize the complainant to proceed against him for a contempt.
This was an application for an attachment against the defendant for the breach of an injunction. The suit was upon a creditor’s bill, and after the service of the ordinary injunction in such suit, the defendant proceeded to a hearing before referees, in a suit which he had previously commenced against a third person, and obtained a report and entered judgment thereon.
J. Rhoades, for the complainants.
M. T. Reynolds, for the defendant.

Opinion:
The Chancellor
denied the application, upon the ground that the act complained of was not such a breach of the injunction as would authorize the complainants to proceed against the defendant for a contempt. He said it could not possibly injure them in the collection of their debt, and was apparently for their benefit; and that it was not an inter-meddling with the defendant's property within the spirit and intent of the injunction.