Brown v. Gerhardt

The plaintiffs filed suit for an injunction to restrain the zoning authorities of the city of Chicago from enforcing the zoning ordinance against them and for a declaratory judgment that the use of their property was a valid nonconforming use. By leave of court certain individual property owners filed an intervening petition and counterclaim praying that plaintiffs be restrained from occupying their property as a multiple-family dwelling in a single-family residence district. The trial court ordered the property restored to single-family use and restrained its use as a multiple-family…