City of Scranton v. BAIDERMAN.

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

Wallace Putkowski has appealed from the issuance of a preliminary injunction by the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. The trial court’s order preliminarily restrained Putkowski from operating a mechanical car-crusher at his junkyard in the City of Scranton.

Putkowski owns and operates a junkyard in a district of Scranton zoned “C-l Community Commercial,” a classification that disallows junkyards as a permitted use under Scranton’s zoning ordinance of 1965. Putkowski purchased the junkyard in early 1979 from one Saul Baiderman, who, in turn, had acquired…