Brackett v. City of Des Moines

Since 1926 plaintiff has owned two lots at the northeast corner of Fiftieth Street and Urbandale Avenue, Des Moines. In 1926 the city council enacted the original Zoning Ordinance, No. 3619, under which the property at each of the four corners of that intersection was zoned as commercial. The commercial zone extended one block east on Urbandale, to and including the four corners of Forty-ninth Street and Urbandale Avenue. This ordinance, apparently invalid for failure to give proper notices, was validated in 1939 by an act of the legislature. In 1934 plaintiff constructed upon the rear of his…