Court Opinion

ID: 5839235
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 22:48:07.933134+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:43:42.814427
License: Public Domain

an action to permanently enjoin defendant from (1) erecting utility poles and (2) removing any town-owned trees, without the approval of its superintendent of highways, the Town of Oyster Bay appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated January 12, 1979, which denied its motion for a preliminary injunction. Appeal dismissed as academic, with $50 costs and disbursements. Since Special Term and this court denied plaintiff’s motions for a preliminary injunction, defendant has lawfully erected the poles in controversy. An injunction will not issue to prohibit a fait accompli (see Katz v Hoe & Co., 278 App Div 766, mot for lv to app den 302 NY 949, cert den 342 US 886; 7A Weinstein-KornMiller, NY Civ Prac, par 6301.15). Lazer, J. P., Mangano, Gibbons and Margett, JJ., concur.