Johnson v. Northeastern Life Insurance Co. of Texas

This is an application to our supervisory jurisdiction praying for reinstatement of a preliminary injunction and the annulment of the trial court’s award for damages in the form of attorney’s fees for the wrongful issuance of the injunction.

The Relator brought suit in the Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson to obtain a temporary restraining order and thereafter a preliminary injunction. A restraining order was *472issued on July 31, 1972, and in due course, the court issued a preliminary injunction, which judgment was signed on September 1, 1972.

Thereafter, the…