City of Dallas v. Davis

This is a suit by appellee against the city of Dallas to restrain the latter from preventing appellee from completing a certain wooden building upon a lot owned by him, and from preventing plaintiff from opening and maintaining therein a retail plumbing shop, and for mandamus to compel the city, through its proper officer, to issue to him a permit to complete said building, and a permit to carry on said business therein.

Appellant pleaded, among other defenses, one of its ordinances iiroviding, “that wherever any lots are laid off by any plat showing a frontage for said lots on any street or…