City of Dumas v. Sheehan

REYNOLDS, Justice.

Appellant City of Dumas, Texas, challenges the propriety of a temporary injunction secured by a resident citizen requiring it to temporarily cancel a building permit issued to, and to prevent any further construction thereunder by, the permittee. The city has not demonstrated that the trial judge clearly abused his broad discretion in granting the temporary injunction. Affirmed.

On June 3, 1974, appellant City of Dumas, Texas, pursuant to notice and hearing, rezoned a 1.63 acre tract of land lying within its corporate limits from the previous classification as an “A” zone,…