Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, 1937

Sweeten v. Titsworth

Sweeten v. Titsworth
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas · Decided July 8, 1937 · Alexander
107 S.W.2d 901; 1937 Tex. App. LEXIS 750 (South Western Reporter, Second Series)

Sweeten v. Titsworth

Opinion of the Court

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This suit was filed in the district court of Freestone county by R. A. Titsworth, Jr., of Henderson county, against J. R. Sessions, sheriff of Freestone county, Jess Sweeten, sheriff of Henderson county, and Pete Wood, one of the constables of Henderson county, for a temporary injunction restraining said officers from interfering with the operation of certain marble machines owned by the plaintiff and operated in Henderson and Freestone counties and to restrain said officers from arresting and prosecuting the plaintiff for operating said machines. The trial court granted the temporary injunction as prayed. The defendant Sweeten appealed.

The allegations of plaintiff’s petition, with' the exception of the names of the parties, are almost identical with the material part of the allegations of the petition considered by this court in the case of Barkley v. Conk-lin, 101 S.W.(2d) 405. For the reasons stated and upon the authorities cited in that case, we hold that the trial court was with-' out authority to grant the injunction appealed from.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the trial court be, and the same is, reversed, and the injunction dissolved.

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