Value Oil Company v. City of Northport

BLOODWORTH, Justice.

Value Oil Company appeals from a final decree of the circuit court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, in equity, granting the City of Northport a permanent injunction, enjoining it from causing or allowing gasoline to be dispensed from its pumps in the manner and according to the procedure as set out in the bill of complaint.

The bill was brought by the City of Northport to enforce provisions of the Fire Prevention Code which required a competent attendant to be in the immediate vicinity of a vehicle being filled with class 1 flammable liquid through an automatic nozzle with…