Phi Lambda Theta Zoning Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bok,

Bucknell University, 114 years old and educating 2500 students yearly, is located in the Borough of Lewisburg, Union County.

It has eight men’s college fraternities which own property in the borough, and one of these, Phi Lambda Theta, occupied a small and inadequate house at 34 Brown Street. In June, 1958, tMs fraternity agreed to buy a new and more commodious house at 203 South Third Street, also in the borough. This agreement was later consummated. The fraternity then applied for a certificate of occupancy, which was refused by the administrative officer of the…