Court Opinion

ID: 9738255
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:46:44.900132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:04.896251
License: Public Domain

KAUS, P. J.
I concur in the result for all reasons stated, except this: I do not think it is necessary to hold that where a party has violated a prohibitory injunction and the contempt power is used coercively under section 1219 of the Code of Civil Procedure to compel him to undo what he has done, it is essential that the court have first made a mandatory order to that effect. Although Dewey v. Superior Court, 81 Cal. 64 [22 P. 333] appears to support such a conclusion, I rather suspect that the case is a product of an age in which mandatory injunctions were ill-favored. It seems to me that if a court enjoins a defendant not to dig a ditch and he does dig a ditch, justice does not require a second order that he fill up the ditch, before the court can order him to do so on pain of imprisonment until he does, provided, of course, he has the present ability.