Griffin v. Chadwick
Griffin v. Chadwick
Opinion of the Court
This suit was brought by Louisa A. Griffin, joined by her husband, John T. Griffin, to enjoin the sale of certain lots in the town of Hempstead, under an execution on a judgment in favor of appellee, John N. Chadwick, against said John T. Griffin and one J. M. De Lyon. Mrs. Griffin was not a party to or in any way bound by the judgment on which the execution levied on the lots issued, and as John T. Griffin is not a party to this suit in his own right, or to protect any interest of his own, but merely to enable his wife to assert her right to the property levied on as her separate estate, this suit must unquestionably be treated and regarded as a suit for an injunction to restrain the sale of land under an execution on a judgment to which the party obtaining the injunction is a stranger, and not as a suit to restrain the collection of money by a party to the judgment under which it is being collected. This being the case, unquestionably the judg
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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- 1. Injunction—Sureties.—In an injuntion suit brought by a wife joined by her husband to enjoin the sale of lands, her separate property, to satisfy a judgment against the husband, and which suit is abandoned by plaintiff, it is error to render judgment against the wife and her sureties on the injunction bond for the entire amount of the judgment and ten per cent, damages. 2. Gault v. Goldthwaite, 34 Tex., 104, overruled. 3. Same.—A third party obtaining an injunction restraining the sale of ills property levied on under a judgment against another, does not subject himself to judgment for the entire amount of the judgment enjoined upon the dissolution of the injunction, irrespective of the damages suffered in fact by the creditor by reason of the injunction.