Gulf Refining Co. v. City of Laurel

The City of Laurel has an ordinance requiring persons, firms, or corporations before constructing and operating a filling station within its municipality, to obtain a permit therefor from its mayor and commissioners. The ordinance provides for a hearing of the application for the permit, at which hearing persons opposed thereto may appear and give evidence; and that “If upon the hearing it should appear to the said Mayor and Commissioners that the erection, construction, operation, or maintenance of such a gasoline filling station at the proposed location, by reason of traffic conditions, or…