Hobbs v. Markey

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Appellant, Thomas G. Hobbs, who for several years had operated a commercial greenhouse on his land in an agricultural area of Fayette County, made application to the building inspector of the county for a permit to convert his greenhouse improvements into a gasoline filling station. The inspector denied the application. Hobbs appealed to the board of adjustment which, after a hearing at which a number of neighboring landowners protested the application, directed that the permit be granted. Mrs. Lucille Markey, who was one of the protesting neighbors and whose thoroughbred…