Armour & Co. v. City of Dallas

Citations

• 255 U.S. 280
• 41 S. Ct. 291
• 65 L. Ed. 635
• 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1824

Syllabus

<p>1. Where a city and a railway company agreed for the removal of the railway’s main tracks from a busy street to another location, to promote the public safety and convenience and the operation of the railway, and owners of abutting property alleged that the change, by depriving them of their switch connection, would largely destroy the value of their expensive plant, in violation of their constitutional rights of contract and property, held, that the case was not one for relief by injunction, and that the plaintiffs had a full and complete remedy in'an action at law for damages. P.286. .. . .</p> <p>2. The District Court should not enjoin the performance of a city’s, contract, as void under the city charter, where the same question is involved in a taxpayer’s suit, instituted in the state court by the same parties and still pending, in which a temporary injunction had been granted and is still in force. P. 286.</p>