Court Opinion

ID: 9832876
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:16:12.268151+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:54.591421
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
The following prayer by appellants sustains our conclusion that they prayed “for a permanent injunction”: “Wherefore, plaintiffs pray that this Honorable Court grant a temporary injunction against the defendants and each of them restraining them and each of them from removing said wooden trestle and approach to the said ferry landing, with notice to show cause why the said injunction should not be made permanent upon hearing and that upon hearing this Honorable Court enter an order restraining the said commissioners from discontinuing and destroying the use of said road by destroying the trestle thereof, for a period of three years from and after the completion of the bridge, to-wit: for a period of three years from and after September 1, 1938, unless at the end of that time the road be still in use by the public and they further pray for all costs of court and for such other relief, general and special, to which plaintiff may be entitled in law or in equity.”
Appellant assigns error against the following fact conclusion: “Appellant Idowth’s land on the Atkins survey extends down to the banks of the Neches river at Dryden’s Ferry, and has potential value as industrial and building sites; this value would be greatly impaired, if not totally destroyed, if the trestle were torn down.”
Our opinion shows that appellant Howth sold to appellant MacFarlane that portion of the river bank immediately adjacent to Dryden’s Ferry; in this fact conclusion it was not our intent to find that appellant Howth owned the land immediately adjacent to the ferry. However, appellant Howth’s holdings on the banks of the river were limited only by his sale to appellant MacFarlane.
In the following fact conclusion, the evidence does not support us in saying that the property of Sabine Transportation Company, Humble Oil & Refining Company, and the Sun Company, was “adjacent to and bordering on that section of highway No. 87 abandoned by the state”: “Other parties beside appellants in the locality of Dryden’s Ferry own land adjacent to and bordering on that section of highway No. 87 abandoned by the State in the manner stated above, including Sabine Transportation Company, Humble Oil & Refining Company, and the Sun Company; these parties would be greatly damaged if the roadway were destroyed; they bought their *532property after highway No.. 87 had been established and the trestle constructed, and the existence of the road and trestle entered into the consideration paid by them for their land.”
 We overrule appellees’ contention that the relief granted by this court was without foundation in appellants’ pleadings. This is a proceeding in equity. Appellants prayed for general relief on the facts detailed in their petition. The relief granted by our judgment does not extend beyond the equities arising on the facts plead. Appellees correctly assert that “it must be presumed that the court found against appellants on all theories presented.” The relief we granted appellants is grounded on the undisputed facts. Appellants’ motion for additional fact conclusions is granted to the extent herein stated.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.