Holbrook v. City of El Paso

CLAYTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the Thirty-fourth District Court of El Paso County, Texas, denying an application for a temporary injunction.

By Ordinance No. 2919, effective July 1, 1963, the appellee City of El Paso passed an ordinance prohibiting engaging in the business of furnishing ambulance service without a franchise. By Ordinance No. 2973, approved August 29, 1963, franchises were granted to El Paso Ambulance Service, Inc., an appellee herein, and William Holbrook, doing business as Metropolitan Ambulance Service, appellant herein. This ordinance regulated the…