Johnson v. McMahan

HAUL, O. J.

The appellant Johnson, joined by W. P. T. Smith, sued Mrs. McMahan, as principal, and W. W. Sample, J. E. Morris, R. J. Hairgrove, and George S. Dink, as sureties on an injunction bond, to recover damages alleged to have resulted from the wrongful granting of a temporary injunction by the district court at the instance and request of the defendants.

The injunction was granted in cause No. 1002 on the docket of the district court of Dickens county; that being an action by Mrs. McMahan against the plaintiffs, who are appellants in this case, to restrain them from digging a ditch and…