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· 10/26/1908

Zeiger v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

  • 212 U.S. 575
  • 29 S. Ct. 684
  • 53 L. Ed. 657
  • 1908 U.S. LEXIS 1605

How courts have described this case

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  • stating the general elements of equitable estoppel, including that the person who asserts it must have been prejudiced
  • modified on other grounds by Cobb v. Daugherty, 225 W. Va. 435, 693 S.E.2d 800 (2010)
  • “... the power to grant or refuse or to modify, continue or dissolve a temporary or a permanent injunction ... will not be disturbed on appeal in the absence of a cleat-showing of an abuse of ... discretion.”
  • “Unless an absolute right to injunctive relief is conferred by statute, the power to grant or refuse . . . a temporary or a permanent injunction, . . . ordinarily rests in the sound discretion of the trial court, according to the facts and the circumstances of the particular case[.]”
  • setting forth factors for equitable estoppel analysis

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