Steelman v. Rosenfeld

CLAUDE WILLIAMS, Justice.

This action, in which a declaratory judgment was sought, was originally instituted by Marshall Rosenfeld and Julius Coleman against A. V. Steelman, Guy Vince, Harold Shank, City Secretary of the City of Dallas, Texas, and Tom E. Ellis, County Clerk of Dallas County, Texas. Plaintiffs sought a judicial determination whether or not a certain area located in the City of Dallas was within a “dry” territory where the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by the laws of the State of Texas.

The defendants Steelman and Vince were lessees of a certain tract of land located…