Munger Oil & Cotton Co. v. City of Groesbeck

This suit was instituted by Hunger Oil & Cotton Company, a private corporation, hereinafter designated the “oil company,” against the city of Groesbeck, a municipal corporation, incorporated and operating under the general laws of the state as a city of more than 1,000 inhabitants, herein called the “city,” for the purpose of restraining the city and its officers from enforcing an order of the city to abate a certain wooden building situated on lots 9 and 10 in block 33 in the city of Groesbeck owned by the oil company and used by it as a cotton seed house. The court granted a temporary…