City of San Antonio v. Robert Thompson & Co.

The ordinances of the city of San Antonio prohibit the operation of what is commonly known, and, therein described, as “drive-in gasoline filling stations,” within the “first fire limits” of the city, also therein described. Such stations are defined in the ordinance to be “a station the construction, arrangement or location of which is such that the general public or customers of such station are invited or required, in order to procure gasoline, oil, naphtha, grease, or other auto supplies, to drive from a street or public highway for vehicles upon or across a public sidewalk or sidewalks…