Habliston v. City of Salisbury

Birnam Wood has indeed come to Dunsinane. Appellants importune us to reverse the chancellor, Travers, J., and to set at naught an ordinance of the City of Salisbury reclassifying a 16 acre tract from “Industrial” to “Residential B” because, they insist, the change “will depreciate the value of * * * [their residences] and * * * interfere with their use and enjoyment of the same.” Perhaps it is just as odd that we think they have the right of it.

The 16 acre tract (the property) lies in a salient of the western boundary of the city. It fronts on Parsons Road which, besides being the…