Stewart v. El Paso County

This is an appeal from the refusal of a temporary injunction.

It appears that there was a narrow road in existence which had been acquired by the county by purchase, and the Commissioners' Court, upon their own initiative, began proceedings and condemned a certain strip of land approximately 13 feet wide by about 1300 feet long, belonging to appellants, in order to widen said road, and from which condemnation proceedings an appeal was taken and is pending.

The appellants filed their petition in the District Court for injunction, alleging matters concerning the proceedings which they claimed…