Crow v. City of Corpus Christi

This suit was instituted by LeRoy Crow (doing business as Yellow Cab Company), and C. C. Checker Cab Company, against the City of Corpus Christi, a municipal corporation, seeking to enjoin the city from collecting under city ordinances any gross receipts tax, or license fee or street rental fee, and further restraining the city from enforcing the penal and forfeiture provisions of the ordinance; and for a declaratory judgment decreeing certain provisions of the ordinances (relating to the collection of gross receipts tax, or license fee or street rental fee) invalid. The cab companies also…