Court Opinion

ID: 5026620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 04:54:18.231932+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:03:25.972078
License: Public Domain

Appellants say the temporary injunction restraining them from conducting for profit a commercial day care center without a license is unauthorized because Art. 695c, Sec. 8(a) subd. 11, Vernon's Ann.Civ.Tex.Stat., provides that the operation may be enjoined only "for cause," and not for mere failure to obtain a license.
Art. 695c, Sec. 8(a), subd. 2 requires that such facility "shall obtain a license to operate." The Act does not make its violation in this respect a penal offense, nor does it prescribe a penalty. Subds. 7 and 9 contain provisions concerning regulation of denial and granting of licenses. The statute was enacted for the protection of children and for the public wilfare, and *Page 444 
in its observance the public has an interest. In our opinion the court was empowered to grant the injunction. Rule 693, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; Hexter Title Abstract Co. v. Grievance Committee, 142 Tex. 506, 179 S.W.2d 946, 949, 157 A.L.R. 268; Nichols v. Park, Tex.Civ.App., 119 S.W.2d 1066; State ex rel. Jackson v. Lindsay, 85 Kan. 192, 116 P. 207, 35 L.R.A., N.S., 810; 17 Words Phrases, "For Cause', pp. 344, 346; 81 A.L.R. 292; 43 C.J.S. Injunctions § 122, p. 663; 28 Am.Jur. Sec. 165, p. 666.
Affirmed.