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diate, a preliminary injunction may issue: PROVIDED, That nothing
herein contained shall be construed to entitle any person, firm,
corporation, or association, except the United States, to bring
suit in equity for injunctive relief against any common carrier,
subject to the provisions of the Act to regulate commerce,
approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven,
in respect of any matter subject to the regulation, supervision, or
other jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Sec. 17. No preliminary injuction shall be issued without notice
to the opposite party.
No temporary restraining order shall be granted without notice
to the opposite party unless it shall clearly appear from specific
facts shown by affidavit or by the verified bill that immediate
and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the applicant
before notice can be served and a hearing had thereon. Every
such temporary restraining order shall be indorsed with the date
and hour of issuance, shall be fortwith filed in the clerk's office
and entered of record, shall define the injury and state why it is
irreparable and why the order was granted without notice, and
shall by its terms expire within such time after entry, not to
exceed ten days, as the court or judge may fix, unless within the
time so fixed the order is extended for a like period for good
cause shown, and the reasons for such extention shall be entered
of record. In case a temporary restraining order shall be granted
without notice in the contingency specified, the matter of the
issuance of a preliminary injunction shall be set down for a
hearing at the earliest possible time and shall take precedence of
all matters except older matters of the same character: and when
the same comes up for hearing, the party obtaining the temporary
restraining order shall proceed with the application for a preliminary
 injunction, and if he does not do so the court shall
dissolve the temporary restraining order. Upon two day's notice
to the party obtaining such temporary restraining order the
opposite party may appear and move the dissolution or modifcation
 of the order, and in that event the court or judge shall
proceed to hear and determine the motion as expeditiously as
the ends of justice may require.
Section two hundred and sixty-three of an Act entitled „An
Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judi-