Court Opinion

ID: 9828145
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:08:47.333435+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:44.651543
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On Rehearing.
By inadvertence we failed in the main opinion, to fix the amount of the injunction bond to be given by appellant. It has been fixed at $5,000 in the decree entered herein.
We see no occasion to recede from the ruling made in this case, nor to further discuss the merits of the question as to appellant’s right to the temporary injunction. However, in view of some apparent misconception by appellees of the effect of our ruling, some further observation will be made.
In the first place the injunction ordered issued is merely temporary. The judgment of this courts becomes the judgments of 'the trial court. Rosenfield v. Campbell (Tex. Civ. App.) 276 S. W. 728; Henry v. Lumber Co., 46 Tex. Civ. App. 179, 102 S. W. 749; Thorndale Mercantile Co. v. Continental Gin Co. (Tex. Civ. App.) 241 S. W. 260, reversed on another point in (Tex. Com. App.) 254 S. W. 939. Such being its ríáture, it is subject to modification or dissolution by the trial court upon proper application and showing therefor.
 The appellant herein is invoking equitable relief. In so doing it must do equity. The appellees, defendants in this case and plaintiffs in the suit pending and threatened in the justice court, are not to be deprived of any substantial right they have. Upon the final hearing, if it shall appear that the appellant is entitled to the relief sought, the trial court has the authority to attach such conditions to the granting of such relief as it may deem equitable and necessary to fully and completely protect the appellees. The appellees should be protected in the costs already incurred by them in the justice court, so also, pendente lite, the trial court, upon proper application and showing, may require of appellant as a condition to the maintenance of the temporary injunction whatever may be necessary to fully and completely protect appellees from the bar of the statute of limitations arising upon the lapse of time before the final termination of the present action.
These and perhaps other matters are all_ fully within the authority of the trial court to properly protect appellees. Appel-lees, in bringing their actions in the justice court and threatening to bring others in that court, acted within their rights. It is only by virtue of the equitable rule announced in the main opinion that they are temporarily enjoined, or can be permanently enjoined, from so doing, and such injunction is not to be permitted to deprive them of any substantial right or cause them any unnecessary expense or delay in the assertion of their demands against appellant.
There is nothing in our opinion which can. be construed as intimating that suits threatened against appellant from Tia Juana to Brownsville are to be consolidated in one action in the district court of El Paso county.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.