Ware v. City of Wichita

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

These appeals relate to the right of an owner of a town lot to construct a business building thereon in a residential section of the city of Wichita.

The plaintiff in case No. 24,337, L. B. Ware, owned a town lot on which he proposed to construct a business building. The lot was located in a residential section of the city. Shortly prior to the time he applied for a permit to construct the building, the city had enacted an ordinance creating a city planning commission under au*155thority of chapter 99 of the Laws of 1921, and this commission had…