City of Wichita Falls v. Roberson

This action was instituted by Mart Roberson against the city of Wichita Falls, Tex., seeking to enjoin the city from enforcement of one of its ordinances. The ordinance was No. 682 and relates to abattoirs or slaughterhouses. That the city of Wichita Falls is a duly incorporated municipality is not 'questioned; nor is the regularity of the enactment of the ordinance questioned. It is attacked, as will more fully hereinafter appear, as violative of several articles of the Constitution, as discriminatory, as creating a monopoly, as unreasonable and oppressive, and as in effect denying plaintiff…