Koplin v. Village of South Orange

On November 9th, 1926, the relator applied to the building inspector of the village of South Orange for a permit for the erection of a nine-story apartment house for the accommodation of seventy-three families on property owned by her at the northwest corner of South Orange avenue and Stanley road in that village.

*490The building inspector refused such permit on the ground (which is true in point of fact) that the zoning ordinance of the village, passed March 20th, 1922, prohibited the erection of the type of building proposed on the land in question, in that it was to be an apartment house in a…