Legal Opinion
City of Miami v. McCrory Stores Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1950No. 12626PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
The suit, based on diversity and amount, was brought'by appellees, as owners of a building fronting on N. Miami Avenue, in the City of Miami, Florida, to enjoin the City of Miami from enforcing against it a set-back emergency ordinance, No. 3598, 1 enacted July 26, 1948, after McCrory had filed their application for a building permit with the Building Department of the City of Miami.
The claim was that the ordinance was invalid because (1) it was enacted with the express purpose of discriminatorily affecting plaintiffs; (2) it was passed without any notice of hearing to…
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