Wolfe v. Forbes

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is a consolidated appeal by James S. Wolfe, City Manager and Zoning Administrative Officer of the City of Moundsville and Robert P. Blackwell, et al. protesting adjoining property owners, from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, which affirmed the decision of the Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Moundsville in its granting of a use variance to Gladys Forbes permitting the operation of a rest home within a residential area designated as R-3 by the City’s Zoning Ordinance.

The principal issue of this appeal is whether Mounds-ville’s Board of…