Hopf v. Board of Review of City of Newport

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review a decision of the respondent board entered on January 24, 1966, granting an application for a special exception to erect an extension to an existing medical office building which had been constructed under a prior special exception granted in April 1959. Pursuant to the writ, the board certified the pertinent records, to this court.

This case has a long history which must be told in some detail in order to present the issues in their proper perspective. The cause was originally heard by this court on No vember 9, I960, on briefs and oral…