Ambrose v. Alioto

In Ambrose v. Alioto (1944) 62 Cal.App.2d 680, a specific performance case, the defendant was ordered to deliver fish to the plaintiff and enjoined from performing her current contract to deliver fish to another company. The court concluded that the injunction was mandatory, reasoning as follows: "The result and effect of the decree is not only mandatory in character but compels the performance of a substantive act and also contemplates a change in the relative position or rights of the parties which existed at the time the decree was entered." (Id., at p. 686.)