City of Dallas v. Atkins
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. Atkins and others obtained temporary injunction restraining the City of Dallas and its officers from enforcing assessments against property of plaintiffs and their personal liability for costs of widening a street, under proceedings by virtue of the charter and ordinances of the city. Defendants appealed, and on affirmance (197 S. W., 593) obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
Defendants in error obtained a temporary injunction restraining plaintiffs in error, the City of Dallas and certain of its officers, from enforcing an ordinance, under which the City sought to condemn certain property for the purpose of widening a street, and to assess the cost of the work against property specially benefited and the owners thereof. The order granting the temporary injunction was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals in an opinion containing a full statement of the case, reported in 197 S. W., at'page 593.
The principal assignments here complain that the Court of Civil…
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