Frax Realty Co. v. Kleinert

The only question involved in this case is whether the institution known as “ Swedish Augustana Home for the Aged ” is a hospital within the meaning of the provision of section 20 of the building zone resolution that: “No garage for more than five cars may be erected * * * within 200 feet of any hospital maintained as a charitable institution.”

No doubt dictionary definitions of the word “ hospital ” can be produced broad enough to include a home for the aged; but the ordinary meaning of the word as in common usage does not include such an institution. In common usage a hospital is an…