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 said districts.” It, also, appears that the city commissioners have in no manner decided what to do about such paving, but that the plans and specifications and estimates of cost of construction are asked for in good faith to enable the city commissioners to take up and consider the necessity and desirability of paving certain streets and alleys in said paving districts Nos. 2 and 3.

The trial court made an order denying a temporary injunction. It also made an order that the demurrer be sustained and the action dismissed. Judgment of dismissal was entered, and plaintiff has appealed from such judgment.

It is elementary that the allowance of a temporary injunction rests largely in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court, to be exercised in view of the facts of the particular case, and that an appellate court will not interfere unless it appears that the trial court abused its discretion. We have no hestitancyhesitancy [sic] in saying, upon showing made in this case, that the trial court was wholly justified in denying the application for a temporary injunction, even if the complaint had stated facts sufficient to constitute cause of action. We are of the opinion, however, that the complaint not only fails to state a cause of action, but that it affirmatively shows that plaintiff in fact and in law has no cause of action; and that it would have been an idle ceremony to have permitted the complaint to be amended.

Under our statutes, a city council, or city commission, is authorized to create sewer, paving, water main and water works districts (Section 2608 C. L. 1913) and to pave streets (Section 3702 C. L. 1913). It is provided that when the city council (or city commission) “shall deem it necessary to * * * to pave * * * any street, highway, avenue, alley, lane or other public ground within the city limits * * *, the city council (or commission) shall direct the city engineer, or in case the city has no competent engineer, shall employ a competent engineer, to prepare plans and specifications for such work, including the grading of the street if not already established, if such grade is deemed necessary by such engineer, and all details of the work to be done, and make an estimate of its probable cost, which plans, specifications and estimates shall be approved by resolution of the city council, which approval shall be deemed to establish the grade of the street as shown in such plans and specifications, if the grade of the street has not previously been established by ordinance, providing such grade has been included in such plans and specifications.