Jourden v. Wyoming Township

This is an appeal from the decree of a circuit judge in Kent county upholding constitutionality of a township licensing resolution.

The provision of the licensing resolution which was attacked as unreasonable in its present application forbade operation of an automobile wrecking yard “within 1,000 feet of a church, school, park or boundary of any residential district.”

The regulatory ordinance considered was adopted under PA 1929, No 12, as amended (CL 1948, § 445.451 [Stat Ann 1959 Rev § 19.731]). The statute authorized the township board to adopt a resolution providing for the licensing of

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