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2 Posey 299

Haynes v. Satterfield

Texas Commission of Appeals

Decided July 1, 1880

Texas Commission of Appeals · decided 1880-07-01

Opinion by Watts, J„ Statement.— This suit was brought by appellant to enjoin the commissioners’ court of Ellis county and the road overseer from opening a second-class public road through his inclosed lands as ordered by the commissioners’ court, because the order was void in that it was made without the written consent of himself, agent or attorney, and no receivers had been appointed to assess the damages, and because the petition upon which the court acted in making the…

Decided 1880-07-01

¶1Opinion.— The petition on which the court acted did not make the reducing of the other road a condition precedent to consent, but asked that the road be opened and then prayed that the other be reduced. As the commissioners’ court has full power over the subject of opening, closing and reducing roads, parties are required ordinarily to apply to that court for relief with respect to those matters. Until the party has exhausted his remedies in that court he is not entitled to invoke the equitable powers of the district court. Burgeois v. Mills, 3 Texas Law Review, 142.

¶2The record not showing that the appellant has exhausted his legal remedies in the commissioners’ court, he is not entitled to the writ of injunction.

¶3Affirmed.

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