San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co. v. Mosel
San Antonio & A. P. Ry. Co. v. Mosel
Opinion of the Court
This is a second appeal of this case, the cause having been reversed on the former appeal because a general demurrer was sustained to the petition. Mosel v. Railway, 177 S. W. 1048. On the trial, from the result of which the present appeal is prosecuted, the court entered a decree granting a temporary writ of injunction, restraining the removal of appellant’s depot from the present location. It was alleged in the petition that a contract was entered into between appellant and the citizens of Kerrville in 1886 for the construction of the railroad to that place; that it was completed in 1887; and that before and at that time the depot was located on the land where it now stands, and appellant admitted the allegations to be true. It also admitted the truth of the allegations that Charles Schreiner made a deed to appellant in 1892 to the land described by ap-pellee, in which deed a part of the consideration was stated to be the maintenance of a depot on the land described and conveyed, and it denied that the land belonging to Schreiner was divided in 1887 into lots by Schreiner, which was not alleged by appel-lees, the allegation being that it was so divided after the deed was recorded in 1892, and that the appellees bought with the conditions of that deed in view. It was admitted that appellant was about to change the location of its depot, and it was not denied that appellees owned land near the present depot, and that it would be damaged in price by a removal of the depot. It was admitted that appellees were taxpayers and had protested against the change intended by appellant. In fact, every material allegation in appellee’s petition was either admitted or not denied. Among other things alleged in the petition was the allegation that it would not be beneficial to the public to move the depot, but that it would be deleterious and damaging to said public. This was denied by appellant, and it was alleged that it would be beneficial to a majority of the people of Kerrville to move the depot, which removal would place the depot nearer the business center of the town.
“On this July 30, 1915, the application of the plaintiffs in the above-stated cause for a temporary injunction, restraining the defendant, San Antonio & Aransas Pass Bailway Company, from removing its passenger depot off the depot grounds of said company at Kerrville, was duly heard before the undersigned judge of said court pursuant to due notice, and, having heard and considered the third amended original petition and supplemental petition of plaintiffs and the first amended original answer and supplemental answer of said defendant, the matter having been submitted upon said pleadings, and having heard the argument of the respective counsel of the parties, I am of the opinion that the writ should issue as prayed for.”
There is not in the record anything indicating that appellant objected to having the ease submitted on the pleadings, nor that any objection was made to the recitation in the order. The order must be presumed to state the truth, and it is authoritative. No effort was made to correct it if it was wrong, and its recitals cannot be attacked on appeal. The cause having been submitted on the pleadings, and enough of the petition remaining undenied to form the basis for the order, the court did not err in issuing a temporary injunction to maintain the status quo until the cause could be 'fully developed.
Without an' agreement upon the part of appellant to submit the cause on the pleadings, which amounted to an agreement that the admitted facts stated therein would be proved, the proposition of appellant that a court is not authorized to grant an injunction upon a sworn bill and answer, without hearing evidence supporting the allegations of the bill, is well founded. But where it is agreed that the plaintiff will be able to introduce evidence to sustain their sufficient allegations to make out a case, the proposition does not apply.
The protest addressed by appellees to appellant against removal of the depot, unless certain things were done, does not show acquiescence upon the part of appellees in the change of location. The protest was ignored by appellant, and no offer was made on its part to comply with the conditions mentioned in the protest.
The judgment is affirmed.
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