Court Opinion

ID: 9681780
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:56:30.375374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:35.885861
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On Appellee’s Motion for Rehearing.
In their motion for rehearing appellees say that we erred in our original opinion in holding Art. 797, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. and Art. 6701d, § 134, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., to be constitutional, and further in dissolving the injunction because the trial court found as a fact that:
“* * * motor vehicle mufflers of the type as manufactured by Smithy’s Muffler Manufacturing Company- of Los Angeles, California, do not cause or permit excessive, unnecessary, or unusual exhaust noise nor annoying exhaust smoke, when installed properly without modification or alteration and which are not damaged to the extent that exhaust leaks occur, but such mufflers efficiently, adequately, . and lawfully minimize exhaust noises and exhaust smoke: * *
Under well established and declared rules of equity jurisprudence it is clear that the trial court was without authority to issue the writ o,f injunction in the absence of the existence of two facts:
“First, that such law is unconstitutional and void; second, that its enforcement constitutes a direct invasion of a vested property right of the complainants.”
Ex parte Sterling, 122 Tex. 108, 53 S.W.2d 294; Kemp Hotel Operating Co. v. City of Wichita Falls, 141 Tex. 90, 170 S.W.2d 217. For further citations of authorities see: 24 Tex.Jur. and 10-year Sup., Injunctions, § 46.
It being determined that the two statutes in question are valid it follows that the injunction was not authorized. Even if the property rights of ap-pellees were invaded by valid criminal statutes it is for the courts created for the purpose of trying criminal cases to determine whether or not the facts constitute a violation of the criminal law, and the fact finding by the trial court in this casé would not authorize the injunction.
We remain convinced that we were correct in our original opinion, and appellee’s Motion for Rehearing is overruled.
Motion overruled.