City of Baytown v. Angel

SAM D. JOHNSON, Justice.

Billy B. Angel, the appellee, instituted this suit against the City of Baytown, the appellant, to enjoin the enforcement of the City’s ordinance prohibiting the operation of self-service gasoline stations. The City of Baytown’s building inspection department issued the appellee Angel a building permit for the construction of a self- service gasoline station and thereafter rescinded the building permit insofar as it related to the construction of the station as a customer’s self-service station. The city’s revocation of the building permit was based upon the existence…