Hill v. Gibson Discount Center

Walter Hill, a person employed by Sears Roebuck Co., but acting for himself and not his company, filed this suit seeking a temporary injunction, and upon a hearing a permanent injunction, restraining Gibson Discount Center and K-Mart Discount Store, a division of Kresge Company, a corporation, from violating Art. 286a, Vernon’s Annotated Penal Code, by selling or offering to sell certain merchandise on the consecutive days of Saturday and Sunday. Gibson defended on the ground that the items forbidden to be sold on such two consecutive days under Section 1, Art. 286a 1 were not sold on such…