Court Opinion

ID: 9443840
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:32:03.406296+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:37.414506
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On Petition for Rehearing.
Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
The appellants have petitioned for a rehearing and have included in their contentions the argument that the temporary injunctions and the appeals therefrom did not become moot inasmuch as there remains for determination the question of the appellants’ right to damages for the wrongful procuring of such injunctions. Appellants have called attention to that portion of the Norris-La Guardia Act contained in Section 107 of Title 29 U.S.C.A., which requires the furnishing of an undertaking as a condition to the granting of a temporary injunction of the kind therein mentioned.
This aspect of the case was not discussed in the opinion previously filed for the reason that this contention was not made by appellants in their briefs or at the oral argument. At the time of the argument the court made inquiry as to the possibility of the existence of such a claim for damages and was then informed that no bond or other security had been required or furnished in connection with the issuance of the temporary injunctions. Now that this point has been made for the first time upon petition for rehearing, we have again examined the record and we note that it is indeed the fact that no bond or undertaking was furnished at the time of the granting of the temporary injunctions. The trial court found and concluded that these were not cases involving or growing out of labor disputes and that the Norris-La Guardia Act did not apply.
Whether the court’s conclusion in that regard was right or wrong was one of the *948questions sought to be presented upon an appeal which has now become moot. In like manner it is possible that had such appeal not become moot, appellants might have assigned error in the court’s failure to require security under Rule 65(g) Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A. That also is something which we have no occasion to examine here in view of the fact that the appeals became moot.
And since whether rightly or wrongly no bond or security was furnished, we must apply the rule which prevails in the federal courts. That rule is that in the absence of such a bond, there may be no recovery of damages for the issuance of a temporary injunction even although it may have been granted without just cause. Russell v. Farley, 105 U.S. 433, 437, 26 L.Ed. 1060; Meyers v. Block, 120 U.S. 206, 211, 7 S.Ct. 525, 30 L.Ed. 642; Tenth Ward Road Dist. No. 11 of Avoyelles Parish v. Texas & P. R. Co., 5 Cir., 12 F.2d 245, 247, 45 A.L.R. 1513, Annotation; Campbell Soup Co. v. Martin, 3 Cir., 202 F.2d 398, footnote on page 399. Cf. International Ladies Garment Workers’ Union v. Donnelly Garment Co., 8 Cir., 147 F.2d 246, 253.
The petition for rehearing is denied.