Halley v. Ingersoll’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘To deprive the plaintiff of the aid of equity by injunction, it must also appear that the remedy at law is plain and adequate; in other words, that it is as practicable and efficient to secure the ends of justice and its proper and prompt administration as is the remedy in equity. And, unless this is shown, a court of equity may lend its extraordinary aid by injunction, notwithstanding the existence of a remedy at law’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tisher v. Jarrett