Stoner McCray System v. City of Des Moines

This is an action in equity to enjoin the defendants from enforcing Zoning Ordinance No. 5453 of the City of Des Moines, Iowa, with reference to plaintiff’s outdoor advertising signs and billboards which were being maintained on certain specifically described tracts of land owned or leased by plaintiff. Plaintiff contends the ordinance attempts to make an unconstitutional discrimination against plaintiff and its property, attempts to destroy plaintiff’s vested property rights, and attempts to deprive plaintiff of its property without due process of law. The trial court found for the plaintiff…