CITY OF FORT WORTH v. McDONALD

No. 15743.

293 S.W.2d 256 (1956)

CITY OF FORT WORTH, Appellant, v. Ben McDONALD, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. E. Rouer, S. G. Johndroe, Jr., Robert R. Goodrich, John Gano, Earl C. Morgan and G. Gordon Whitman, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Wardlaw, Bradley & Cochran, George E. Cochran and Ernest May, Fort Worth, for appellee.


MASSEY, Chief Justice.

From a temporary injunction against the City of Fort Worth enjoining it from enforcing within its corporate limits an ordinance prohibiting the keeping and displaying of "pinball machines" or "marble boards", the City appeals.

Affirmed.

The ordinance (No. 3434) was passed on February 22, 1956. Within five days suit was filed. The petitioner for injunctive and declaratory relief was Ben McDonald, an individual whose occupation...

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