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64 Cal. 423

Swift v. Shepard

California Supreme Court

Decided December 29, 1883

California Supreme Court · decided 1883-12-29

Application to the Supreme Court for an order staying the operation of an injunction granted by the lower court in an action between the respondent and applicant restraining the diversion of the waters of a certain creek, from which judgment the applicant appealed.

Relies on Merced Mining Co. v. Fremont

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Decided 1883-12-29

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Sharpstein, J., specially concurring.

¶1—It was early held in this State that an injunction is not dissolved or superseded by the taking of an appeal from the order granting it. (Merced Mining Company v. Fremont, 7 Cal. 130.) That case has not been overruled, and the statute, in respect of the question now raised, has not been substantially changed. The only question raised by the appeal is whether the injunction was properly granted, and that question must be determined upon the record. Until so determined the presumption is in favor of the correctness of the judgment of the court below. We could not grant this motion without at least modifying the judgment appealed from.

¶2If the judgment be reversed, it will then be apparent that the appellant was deprived of the use of his property by the granting and continuance of the injunction. But if we grant this motion and finally affirm the judgment, it will be equally appar-ent that the respondent was deprived, in the mean time, of the use of his property.

¶3There is nothing in this case which materially distinguishes *426it from most of the cases in .which appeals are taken from orders or judgments granting injunctions.

¶4McKee, J., and McKinstry, J., concurred in the opinion of Mr. Justice Sharpstein.

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