Interim injunction to preserve building positions refused due to respondent's acceptance of demolition risk.
Sintesi Legislator
Generato dall'IAThe Supreme Court refused an application for an interim injunction to preserve the parties' respective building positions pending the final appeal. The appellant sought to maintain the status quo regardless of the trial court's judgment, while the respondent admitted continuing work and accepted the risk of demolition if the appeal succeeded. The court granted the refusal because the respondent's declaration that no hardship would be raised rendered the injunction unnecessary.
Regesto Legislator
Generato dall'IACivil Procedure Act; Interim Injunctions: An application for an interim injunction to preserve position pending appeal may be refused where the respondent declares they accept the risk of the property being altered or demolished.
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Generato dall'IADecisioni correlate
Generato dall'IATesto completo
[*486] 1967 April 27
(VASSILIADES P., JOSEPHIDES, HADJIANASTASSIOU, JJ.)
APPELLATE JURISDICATION
Loulla Reddaway,
Appellant-Plaintiff,
v.
Yola Skaliotou as administratrix of the
Estate of the decreased Andreas Louca
and another,
Respondents-Defendants.
(Application in Civil Appeal No.4623).
Injunctions - Interim injunctions pending appeal - Application for an interim injunction to preserve position regarding parties' respective buildings, as it were at the time of the filing of action in trial Court - Regardless of the adjudication of the matter by such trial Court - Application refused on the basis of a statement and a declaration in Court by Respondents' Counsel.
A. Paikkos, for the Appellant.
A. Triantafyllides, for the Respondents.
JUDGMENT
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by: -
VASSILIADES, P.: The dispute between parties is, at this stage of the proceedings, confined to the question whether the applicants (appellants in the appeal) are entitled to an interim injunction to preserve the position regarding their respective buildings, as it were at the time of the filing of the action, regardless of the adjudication on the matter in the trial Court, and the Judgment delivered on April 8, 1967, the subject-matter of the appeal wherein this application is made. [*487]
After the statement made in Court this morning by counsel for the respondents, as to the circumstances under which their building-work was continued after Judgment; and after the declaration made on their (the respondents') behalf that they are taking the risk of having their building demolished, if the appellants are successful in the appeal, and no question of consequent hardship will be raised at the hearing of the appeal, we have no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that the application for an interim injunction must be refused. This, of course, shall in no way prejudice any of the issues which may arise in the appeal, including the question whether the appellants are entitled to the injunction claimed by their action.
The application is, therefore, refused; with costs in cause.
Order in terms.