Mooney v. City of San Antonio

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was instituted by sixteen taxpayers of the City of San Antonio who were engaged in a business of operating a wrecker service, against the City of San Antonio and Charlie Alvarado, d/b/a Alvarado Brothers Garage, seeking to enjoin enforcement of a penal ordinance enacted by the City on December 12, 1963, which ordinance prohibited a wrecker operator from handling, on or over the streets and ways of the City, any vehicle which had been abandoned or involved in a collision, unless the operator was directed to do so by the Chief of Police or his authorized…