Silver v. Washington Investment Co.

Citations

• 65 Wash. 541
• 118 P. 748
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 968

Syllabus

<p>Injunction — When Lies — Complaint — Sufficiency—Adequate Remedy at Law — Multiplicity of Suits. Tbe complaint in an action for an injunction shows that tbe injury cannot be compensated in damages, and there is no adequate remedy at law, where it appears that tbe lessor of tbe five top stories of an office building with a hallway for ingress and egress has lost subtenants and that other subtenants are threatening to vacate because the hallway is blocked by the lease of a cigar stand, where crowds congregate to indulge in games of chance, inconveniencing and driving away the clientage of tenants in the building; hence an action lies to enjoin the maintenance of the cigar stand in the hall, to avoid a multiplicity of suits from the continuing wrong.</p>