Court Opinion

ID: 5543724
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 18:54:38.266528+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:52.599867
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Sedgwick, C. J.
This was an equity action, in which the plaintiff asked for a permanent injunction restraining the defendants from operating or maintaining their elevated railroad in front of plaintiff’s premises. The defendants object to the judgment that it absolutely enjoins the operation of the defendants’ railway, unless the defendants tender to the plaintiff the sum of $10,000. The testimony shows that the plaintiff was entitled to an absolute and unconditional judgment of injunction, and the condition by which the defendants might be relieved from such an injunction was a grace or privilege to the defendants, of which they cannot complain. Bank v. Railway Co., 53 N. Y. Super. Ct. 511. This decision was affirmed by the court of appeals. I am of opinion that it was not injurious to the defendants that the court should hear testimony as to what was the proper sum to be named in the condition tiiat has been alluded to, and to specifically find what sum the defendants should pay if they wished to be freed from their obligation to abate the wrong that consisted in their illegal maintenance and operation of their road. The court did not adjudge that the defendants should pay the sum. If all these matters were stricken from the case, there would remain an unassailable judgment that the defendants should stop persisting in their wrong to the plainti tf.
To the general position that the defendants desire now to acquire the plaintiff’s property in a legal manner, the plaintiff is right in replying that there had been full opportunity for that before the judgment was rendered. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs. All concur.