There were apoplectic cheeks, blazing eyes, and gasps for breath while the enormity of the offense was being noised abroad.

Law is law, however.
Procedure is procedure, and no writ of injunction was either issuable or returnable on a legal holiday, when no courts were sitting.
Nevertheless, by three o'clock in the afternoon an obliging magistrate was found who consented to issue an injunction staying this terrible crime.

By this time, however, the building was gone, the excavation complete.

It remained merely for the West Chicago Street Railway Company to secure an injunction vacating the first injunction, praying that its rights, privileges, liberties, etc., be not interfered with, and so creating a contest which naturally threw the matter into the State Court of Appeals, where it could safely lie.

For several years there were numberless injunctions, writs of errors, doubts, motions to reconsider, threats to carry the matter from the state to the federal courts on a matter of constitutional privilege, and the like.