Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided February 11, 1938No. 13769PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, Justice.
W. M. Murphy filed a petition in the district court of Denton county, Tex., against J. L. Wright, Mayor, E. I. Key, city attorney, and I. E. Jones, city marshal, respectively, of the city of Denton, asking for a temporary injunction restraining said officers from the enforcement of a recently passed ordinance, claimed by plaintiff to be void.
We shall refer to the parties, in this opinion, as they appeared in the trial court.
The plaintiff alleged he is and had been for some time passed, engaged in the restaurant business in the city of Denton, and had leased certain premises and…
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