Lawton v. City of Austin

HUGHES, Justice.

Earl L. Dolifka, J. E. Berryman and Leonard Lawton, appellants, by an amended pleading sued the City of Austin, Safeway Stores, Inc., Nash Phillips, Clyde Copus and R. B. Lewis for a declaratory judgment invalidating three ordinances passed by the City of Austin making changes in its zoning ordinances.

Trial was non-jury. Judgment was rendered declaring the ordinances attacked to be valid and denying appellants any relief, the Court reciting “that plaintiffs have failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the enactment of” the ordinances by the City “has had or…