Desporte v. City of Biloxi

Anderson, J.,"

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant, Mrs. Sophie Desporte, filed her bill in the chancery court of Harrison county against appellee, city *547of Biloxi, to enjoin the latter from the enforcement of a certain nuisance ordinance adopted by it, affecting the wholesale oyster business of appellant and others similarly situated. There was a trial on bill, answer, and proofs, and a final decree rendered, dismissing appellant’s bill, from which she prosecutes this appeal.

In substance the ordinance in question prohibits wholesale pyster shops within a certain area in the city of…