Opinion ID: 1246757
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Question: Five. Did the trial court abuse its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction?

Text: (11) No. In Continental Baking Co. v. Katz, 68 Cal.2d 512, 527-528 [67 Cal. Rptr. 761, 439 P.2d 889], we held that `The authorities are numerous and uniform to the effect that the granting or denial of a preliminary injunction on a verified complaint, together with oral testimony or affidavits, even though the evidence with respect to the absolute right therefor may be conflicting, rests in the sound discretion of the trial court, and that the order may not be interfered with on appeal, except for an abuse of discretion.' [Citation.] ... (12) `The granting or denial of a preliminary injunction does not amount to an adjudication of the ultimate rights in controversy. It merely determines that the court, balancing the respective equities of the parties, concludes that, pending a trial on the merits, the defendant should or that he should not be restrained from exercising the right claimed by him.' [Citations.] ... (13) Thus, the court examines all of the material before it in order to consider `whether a greater injury will result to the defendant from granting the injunction than to the plaintiff from refusing it' [citations]. In making that determination the court will consider the probability of the plaintiff's ultimately prevailing in the case and, it has been said, will deny a preliminary injunction unless there is a reasonable probability that plaintiff will be successful in the assertion of his rights. [Citations.] As was said in Family Record Plan, Inc. v. Mitchell (1959) 172 Cal. App.2d 235, 242 [342 P.2d 10], `In the last analysis the trial court must determine which party is the more likely to be injured by the exercise of its discretion [citation] and it must then be exercised in favor of that party [citation]. (9b) It sufficiently appears that there were ample facts before the trial court from which it could make its determination, that it took into consideration the various factors to be estimated and weighed, and that no abuse of its discretion in issuing the preliminary injunction is shown. The order granting the injunction is affirmed.