Legal Opinion

State v. Fairbanks-Morse & Co.

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided February 1, 1952No. 14401Published

1Opinion

*654On Rehearing.

YOUNG, Justice.

The State’s anti-trust suit for final injunction and penalties (against Fairbanks-Morse, $50 to $1,500' per day from January 1, 1938 to date of petition, June 9, 1948) is for all practical purposes a criminal action and subject to the same rules of strict construction. Ford Motor Co. v. State, 142 Tex. 5, 175 S.W.2d 230; also subject to the stringent rule of pleading applicable to injunctions “that ‘the aver-ments of material and essential elements must be sufficiently certain to negative every inference of the existence of facts under which petitioner would not be…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Kidd v. PearsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  2. New York Ex Rel. Rogers v. GravesSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  3. S. R. Smythe Co. v. Ft. Worth Glass & Sand Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1912
  4. Gates v. HooperTexas Supreme Court · 1897
  5. S. R. Smythe Co. v. Ft. Worth Glass & Sand Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1912

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