Mango v. Plymouth Township Board of Trustees

33 Mich. App. 715 (1971)

190 N.W.2d 285

MANGO

v.

PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Docket No. 8886.

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided May 21, 1971.

Earl J. Demel and Charles F. Decker, for plaintiffs.

Ralph W. Cole, for defendants.

Before: LESINSKI, C.J., and V.J. BRENNAN and DANHOF, JJ.

V.J. BRENNAN, J.

This is an appeal from a grant of accelerated judgment[1] in favor of the defendants in an action to compel issuance of a building permit.

The seeds of the present controversy were sown in 1957 when Plymouth Township adopted a zoning ordinance changing plaintiffs' property from a commercial to a…