Chevron Oil Co. v. City of El Paso

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

The Appellant, Chevron Oil Company, filed suit for a declaratory judgment against the Appellees, the City of El Paso and its City Council, alleging that ordinances controlling the routes and methods to be used in transporting flammable liquid products within the City limits were arbitrary, unreasonable, unconstitutional and void, and sought a declaratory judgment to that effect. Appellant further asked for injunctive relief from the enforcement of the penal features of those ordinances. The case was tried without a jury, and at the close of the Appellant’s case, the Court…