Goodell v. Lassen

Citations

• 69 Ill. 145

Syllabus

<p>1. Injunction—to prevent trapas». Before a court of equity will lend its aid to enjoin a mere trespass, the facts and circumstances must be alleged in the bill from which it may be seen that irreparable mischief will be the result of the act complained of, and that the law can afford the party no adequate remedy.</p> <p>2. Where the owner of a leased building sought, by bill in chancery, to enjoin a tenant, who had leased rooms from a prior owner, from attaching to the building a sign of three gilded balls to indicate his business of pawnbroker, there being no stipulation in the lease as to the signs to be used or where they should be placed: Held, that, if the owner would be injured in consequence of the acts sought to be restrained, his remedy at law was complete and adequate, and that it did not appear that any irreparable injury would follow the proposed act.</p>