Case Name: PLATEAU OIL CO. et al. v. CHOATE OIL CORPORATION
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-06-25
Citations: 235 S.W. 686
Docket Number: No. 9777
Parties: PLATEAU OIL CO. et al. v. CHOATE OIL CORPORATION.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 235
Pages: 686–687

Head Matter:
PLATEAU OIL CO. et al. v. CHOATE OIL CORPORATION.
(No. 9777.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Port Worth.
June 25, 1921.
Rehearing Denied Nov. 5, 1921.)
1. Appeal and error <&wkey;l2 — Appeal should be taken from refusal to dissolve injunction, not ' from the granting thereof.
Since Rev. St. 1911, arts. 4644, 4645, as amended by Acts 36th Leg. (1919) c. 17, give an appeal from an order overruling a motion to dissolve an injunction, the appeal should be from such order, and failure to take it waives the right to appeal from the original order granting the injunction.
2. Appeal and error <&wkey;>768 — Admission in appellant’s brief held to cure defect of record.
Where it is eóntended that the appeal should have been taken from an order refusing to dissolve an injunction instead of the original order granting the injunction, any doubt as to the authority of the appellate court to accept an affidavit as to the second judgment under Vernon’s Sayles’ Ann. Civ. St. 1914, art. 1593, is removed by aeknowledgmpnt in appellant’s brief that the second judgment was rendered after hearing.
On Motion for Rehearing.
3. Appeal and error <&wkey;l2 — Appeals held inconsistent.
An appeal from an order issued in chambers granting an injunction, an.d an appeal from a judgment overruling a motion to dissolve the injunction theretofore granted, are inconsistent remedies.
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Bruce Young, Judge.
Action by the Choate Oil Corporation against the Plateau Oil Company and others. From a decree granting an injunction, defendants appeal.
Appeal dismissed.
L. J. Wardlaw, of Fort Worth, and W. H. Lipscomb, of San Antonio, for appellants.
Fred S. Dudley, of Fort Worth, for ap-pellee.
writ of error granted December 21, 1921.

Opinion:
BUCK, J.
This is an appeal, according to the transcript on file, from an order and judgment of the Forty-Eighth judicial district court, upon an ex parte hearing, granting an injunction against the Plateau Oil Company of Delaware, the Plateau'Oil Company of Texas, their attorney, L. J. Ward-law, their agent, J. Ben Ross, or any other agent or employee of said companies, from selling or in any way disposing of certain notes and securities held by them, alleged to belong to the plaintiffs. The Plateau Oil Company of Delaware and L. J. Wardlaw have appealed. Appellee has filed a certified motion in this court to dismiss the appeal herein,' setting up the facts that defendant Plateau Oil Company of Delaware filed an answer and a motion to dissolve the injunction theretofore granted, and the motion was overruled as to defendant Plateau Oil Company of Delaware, and the injunction ordered to remain in full force and effect. No appeal from this last order and judgment has been taken.
Articles 4644 and 4645, Tex. Civ. Stats., were amended by the Thirty-Sixth Legislature. See General Laws 36th Legislature, p. 22, providing for an appeal from an order and judgment overruling a motion to dissolve an injunction theretofore granted, pri- or to that time no appeal lay as to such order. Walstein v. Nicholson, 47 Tex. Civ. App. 358, 105 S. W. 207; Gregory v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas, 154 S. W. 236. Prior to this amendment it ,was held that a party against whom an injunction had been granted did not lose his right of appeal therefrom by making a motion to dissolve the injunction, which latter motion was overruled.
Jeff Chaison Townsite Co. v. McFadden, Wiess & Kyle Land Co., 56 Tex. Civ. App. 611, 121 S. W. 716. But in this decision the court says:
. "It would have been better if the act in question had in fact given the right of appeai from an order refusing to dissolve, instead of "from the order granting the injunction, which would have allowed a presentation of the case on appeal upon the petition, answer, and such evidence in addition as was heard on the motion to dissolve, instead of the naked allegations of the petition."
But since the Legislature has specifically given the right of appeal from an order"' overruling a motion to dissolve an injunction, vve are inclined to think defendants have waived their right in this case to appeal from the original order granting the injunction. There has been an election of rights, and the litigant is bound by the election. Williston on Contracts, vol. 2, § 679, subd. 2, and section 683.
If there should be any doubt about our authority to accept an affidavit as to the second judgment, under article 1593, V. S. Tex. Civ. Stats., such doubt is removed by the acknowledgment in appellant's brief that the second judgment was rendered after a hearing.
For the reasons indicated, the appeal is idismissed.