Court Opinion

ID: 9832859
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:15:18.074974+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:54.086125
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing and to Dismiss Appeal.
Appellant has made known to the court that since our decision was rendered “all beer dealers in the city of Brady, Texas, have ceased to do .business, and, therefore, the ’ questions in this case have become moot.” For this reason, he moves for dismissal.
There is an additional reason which we think ’ calls for dismissal. By an amendment of'the Liquor Control Act, effective September 1, 1937 (H.B. 5, Acts Reg. S. 45th Leg.), the above-quoted portion of section 21 (now section 27) of art. 2 (Vernon’s Arm.P.C. art. 667—27) now reads: “Upon having called to his attention by affidavit of any credible person that any person is violating, or is about to violate, any of the provisions of the Texas Liquor Control Act or if any permit or license was wrongfully issued, it shall *331be the duty of the Attorney General, or the District or County Attorney to begin proceedings to restrain any such person from the threatened or any further violation, or operation under such permit or license, and the District Judge shall have authority to issue restraining orders without hearing, and upon notice and hearing to grant injunction, to prevent such threatened or further violation by the person complained against, and may require the person complaining to file a bond in such amount and containing such conditions and in such cases as the Judge may deem necessary.”
 It is apparent that by this amendment the right given a private individual to maintain an injunction suit has been abrogated, and such right expressly conferred upon the Attorney General, or district or county attorney, upon affidavit, etc. The right of appellant, therefore, to further prosecute this suit has ceased to exist.
Our former judgment, setting aside the order of the trial court denying appellant a temporary injunction, is set aside, and the appeal is dismissed, without prejudice, however, to any substantive right of any party to the litigation. Our former opinion herein is not otherwise disturbed.
Former judgment set aside; appeal dismissed.