Gannon v. Payne

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that when a Texas trial court seeks to enjoin parties in a foreign country, an appellate court must adhere to strict guidelines, including the caveat of limited use
• explaining that “the law is equally clear that a trial court is not authorized to determine the merits of a plea in bar in a hearing on an application for temporary injunction”
• noting that this power is accompanied by a \caveat of limited use\
• noting trial court could have delayed issuing its injunction to give party time to comply with stipulation that it would drop injunction request in foreign suit
• holding comity prevented Texas court from enjoining related Canadian litigation
• contrasting the power of Texas courts to “protect [their] jurisdiction by enjoining the parties to a suit subsequently filed in another court of this state” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).