210 S.W. 333 | Tex. App. | 1919
This case is before this court on an appeal from an order and decree of the district court of McLennan county, refusing to grant appellants a temporary writ of injunction. The. original petition was filed January 29, 1919, and the application for injunction was set down for hearing for February 1, 1919. Appellants applied for the writ of injunction to restrain a sale of certain property claimed to be the homestead of appellants, Margaret and Richard White-sides, under what wa^ alleged to be a void judgment, in that the judgment had never become final; and it wa^ alleged that the order of sale was therefore a nullity. The sale .sought to be enjoined was advertised to take place February 4, 1919, and the injunction was refused by the trial court after hearing on February 1, 1919. - t .
Appellants’ appeal bond was filed on February 8, 1919, and the transcript contains but two assignments of error; the first b.eing to the effect that the trial court erred in refusing to grant the temporary injunction prayed for, because the facts alleged in appellants’ petition and, admitted by appeL lees showed that appellants were entitled to such relief; and, the second, that the court erred in refusing to grant the temporary injunction, because the judgment on which the order of sale was issued was not a final judgment.
Appellees have filed their motion to dismiss this appeal, on the ground that the appellants now present only a moot question for this court’s determination.
It appears from the record that the sale sought to be enjoined was to take place on February 4, 1919, and that the appeal was perfected four days after the sale was advertised to take place. Appellees accompany their motion to dismiss with the order of sale and the return of the sheriff, showing that the property was sold by the sheriff to N. Wood, one of the appellees, on February 4, 1919; and they also attached the sheriff’s deed, which was filed for record in the office of the county clerk on February 6, -1919. It is therefore claimed that the subject-matter of this appeal has ceased to exist, and that there now remains nothing for this court to determine, except the mere matter of costs.
It is suggested in appellants’ brief and reply to the motion to dismiss that, while this proceeding was instituted primarily to enjoin the sale, it also had for its object the declaring void of the former judgment, and the further relief of having the original cause stand for trial on the docket, and the rendition of a proper and final judgment; and that the appeal should not be dismissed, but that this court should decide whether the former judgment was final or not.
Motion granted.