Westwood Development Company v. City of Abilene

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment granting the City of Abilene a permanent injunction, enjoining Westwood Development Company of Abilene, Inc., and its president, Arthel Henson, from building on the Development Company’s property a filling station or other commercial building.

The City had, on September 10, 1954, passed on first reading an ordinance purporting to annex the property in question to the City and zoning it as a residential area. About six days later, the president of the Development Company filed with the City an appli'cation for a permit to construct on such…