Coates v. Windham

POWERS, Associate Justice.

Appellants sued appellees in district court to permanently enjoin appellees from actions aimed at the expenditure of State funds, appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of paying the purchase price of lands intended to be used as the site of a State prison^ operated by the Texas Department of Corrections. 1

Ancillary to their petition for permanent injunction, appellants applied to the district court for a temporary injunction restraining the same actions, pendente lite, which injunction the district court denied. Appellants perfected an interlocutory appeal…