Lewis v. Harrison

This is an appeal from an order dissolving a temporary injunction. The proceeding arose under what is commonly known as the “Tick Eradication Statute” (Acts 35th Leg. c. 60; Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, art. 7314 et seq.). Appellants, citizens of Coryell county, sought to enjoin the inspector for Coryell county and certain local inspectors from requiring appellants’ cattle to be dipped in the vats and solution prescribed by the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. The principal grounds relied upon were that their cattle were free from any of the statutory diseases, or the fever-carrying…