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 608 ' FEDERAL BBPOETEB. �the court to determine what would be right between the parties ; that is to say, that, until the final hearing, or the further order of the court, the express company should be allowed to continue its business over the defendant's road on the same terms as to compensation and otherwise as it waa before the suit was commenced. �The relations which have subsisted between the two com- panies before the litigation commenced were to continue until it was ended, and ail controversies which might arise out of these relations were to be decided, not by the defendant, but by the court. �The injunction has been violated, but the parties against whom the order to show cause was entered have ail answered that in doing what they did they had no thought of disre- garding the order of the court, and that they acted upon the advice of counsel, supposing that they were doing nothing that they were forbidden to do by the injunction. �The counsel who thus advised these parties are in good repute, both for ability and integrity. That they believed they were right in the construction which they placed upon the order of the court, and in the advice which they gave to the defendant, its ofQeers and employes, I have no doubt. What seemed to be the chief desire of counsel on both sides, in the argument, namely, a construction of the injunction order, has been accomplished, and the rule to show cause will be discharged on payment of costs, with leave to the com- plainant to move for an attachment in the event that the foregoing views of the court be disregarded by the defendant. ����