STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. CITY OF GADSDEN

Civ. A. No. 66-419.

263 F.Supp. 502 (1967)

STANDARD OIL COMPANY, a corporation, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF GADSDEN, a municipal corporation in the State of Alabama, and Z. E. Wright as Chief of the Fire Department of Gadsden, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Alabama, M. D.

January 25, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, Ala., and Clarence Simmons, Jr., Gadsden, Ala., for plaintiff.

Roy D. McCord and Bill Bradley, Gadsden, Ala., for defendants.


GROOMS, District Judge.

This is an action for a declaration that a certain ordinance of the City of Gadsden, Alabama, is unconstitutional and for a permanent injunction against its enforcement.

Since July, 1959, the plaintiff, Standard Oil Company, has owned and operated a retail service station at 1900 Rainbow Drive, within the police jurisdiction of the City of Gadsden. The facilities at this station for storage of gasoline are presently three 1,000 gallon...

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