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30 Ill. App. 88

Doyle v. Brown

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided January 16, 1889

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1889-01-16

<p>Injunctions—Dissolution on Demurrer—Damages—Solicitor's Fees— Practice.</p> <p>The dissolution of an injunction on demurrer to the hill furnishes no ground for the assessment of damages for services of the solicitor.</p>

Relies on Frederick v. Connecticut River Savings Bank · McQuown v. Law

Decided 1889-01-16

Gary, J.

¶1The defendants in error seem to have abandoned this case (as no brief has been filed by them, although by stipulation they took time to do so), and with good reason, for the dissolution of an injunction on demurrer to the bill furnishes no ground for assessing damages for the services of the attorney, as such services have no special reference to the injunction, but are in general defense of the suit. McQuown v. Law, 18 Ill. App. 34, and cases there cited. There is no decree disposing of the bill which asks general relief besides the injunction.

¶2The order sustains the demurrer only, and then stops, except the decree of the 850 damages was afterward entered. The decree is reversed, but there is nothing to remand. The case itself is, so far as this record shows, still pending.

¶3Whether the demurrer should have been sustained or not is not a question here until there is a final decree. Frederick v. Conn. R. S. Bk., 106 Ill. 147.

¶4Decree reversed.

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