Salant v. Sauserman

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 506
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 288

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Injunction—Preliminary injunction — Status quo.</p> <p>A preliminary injunction issues to reframe a state of affairs disarranged by stealth and chicane pending efforts to sustain the status quo. It is the last actual, peaceable, noncontested Status which precedes the filing of a bill in equity, that is to be preserved.</p> <p>Where an owner of a factory agrees to devote it exclusively for the period of one year to the manufacture of shirts from shirting material furnished by a dealer, and subsequently within the year, without any notice as required by the agreement, of the termination of the contract, the owner sells the factory and gives possession of tbe same to another dealer, and agrees to give bis services to tbe latter as foreman for a year, tbe first dealer is entitled to a preliminary injunction to maintain tbe status quo established by tbe contract.</p>