City of Odessa v. Halbrook

NEALON, Chief Justice.

Appellee, C. J. Halbrook, plaintiff below, brought this suit against V. C. Wiggins, mayor of the City of Odessa, a municipal corporation, incorporated under the general laws of the state, and against W. M. Marrs, John Perry, Charles Christian, W. F. Matthews, and J. J. Willis, councilmen of said city, and Hugh Ratliff, city marshal, alleging that said mayor and council (said named councilmen constituting the entire body) had on or about September 7, 1936, denied him a permit to do certain repair work on a building belonging to him and located within the fire zone of said…