Shoppers Fair of North Houston, Inc. v. City of Houston

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Shoppers Fair of North Houston, Inc. and Shoppers Fair of Texas, Inc., sued the City of Houston and others. They sought a temporary injunction pending a hearing on the merits. A temporary injunction was refused and plaintiffs have appealed. Plaintiffs alleged they operated two stores in Houston and, in accordance with Article 286a of the Vernon’s Ann. Penal Code of Texas, as interpreted by our Supreme Court in State v. Shoppers World, Inc., 380 S.W.2d 107, they had, since July 1964, been open for business on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays as an accommodation to…