three o'clock in the afternoon
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 .