City of Coral Gables v. Brigham

The City of Coral Gables appeals from a summary judgment allowing E. F. P. Brigham to keep a tool shed on his residential property, which had been prohibited by the City. Brigham cross-appeals because the trial judge did not declare two sections of the Zoning Code of the City to be unconstitutional, as he had requested. From the record, it appears that Brigham had had a tool shed in the backyard of his single family home for twenty years. He saw a Sears Roebuck advertisement for a 9/ x 9' x 6' “All Aluminum Metro Approved Lawn Building”; he purchased and installed it as a replacement for his…