San Patricio County v. Maxwell

SMITH- j.

The' appeal is from an order granting a temporary injunction upon complainant’s bill, without notice or hearing.

It was alleged by appellees as plaiñtiffs below that the commissioners’ court of San Patricio county had obtained from the state highway commission a designation of state highway No. 9, over a specific route through the lands of three local citizens, Hughes, Lane, and Horn; that the landowners and the commissioners’ court could not agree upon the compensation to he paid for the lands to he taken and the incidental damages, whereupon (instead of resorting to condemnation…