McKelley v. City of Murfreesboro

The determinative question presented is -whether or not the municipality had power under its charter, in the absence of either a local or general legislative act directed to the specific matter involved, to enact and enforce an ordinance prohibiting the erection and operation of filling-stations within a prescribed area.

The bill also attacked the ordinance as unreasonable on several grounds, in substance, that, (1) other commercial enterprises are not excluded, (2) that complainant’s lot possesses greater value for commercial purposes than for residential purposes, (3) that the exclusion of…