Coleman v. Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad

Citations

• 8 Wash. 227
• 35 P. 1077
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 37

Syllabus

<p>EMERGENCY RESTRAINING ORDER — EXTENSION PENDING APPEAL — ESTOPPEL.</p> <p>A restraining order issued without notice to defendants, on the ground of a temporary emergency, cannot be kept in force by plaintiff pending an appeal.</p> <p>The fact that defendants have respected such an emergency restraining order for a considerable length of time, and have made no motion against it until appeal from the judgment in the action in which it was granted, does not estop them from denying that they have treated it as a temporary injunction.</p>