Ray v. City of Dallas

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is a zoning case. Plaintiffs in the trial court, T. M. Burgess and wife Ona M. Burgess, and Lillian Ray, a widow, are the owners of unimproved property on Abrams Road and Richmond Street in Dallas, Texas. These lots had, for many years, been zoned under a comprehensive ordinance of the City of Dallas which provided that such property could be used for single-family dwellings and other limited uses under Classification R-10. Plaintiffs brought suit against the City of Dallas seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the City from enforcing such zoning ordinances and from…