Sherwood Lanes, Inc. v. City of San Angelo

O’QUINN, Justice.

Sherwood Lanes, Inc., has appealed from judgment of the trial court holding that an ordinance of the City of San Angelo, passed in November of 1962, granting a special permit to establish a parking lot, was void and the permit not available for use in 1972, after appellant failed to avail itself of the permit within one year following passage of the ordinance.

On appeal Sherwood Lanes contends that the ordinance granting the permit, despite provision of the city’s zoning code that any permit not used within one year “will be cancelled and revoked, and be of no effect,” may not…