Sheffield v. Town of Duncanville

BOND, Chief Justice.

The appellants as plaintiffs in the court below instituted suit against appellee Town of Duncanville, Texas, a municipality of approximately 1,000 inhabitants, for anticipatory damages as would probably accrue to them in the aggregate sum of $80,000 if the town should be permitted to install a sewage disposal plant in the neighborhood of appellants’ property; and in consequence sought a temporary injunction to *852restrain the Town Councilmen from installing the plant pendente lite at the designated site.

In limine, on hearing for the temporary injunction the trial court denied…