Wrigley Properties, Inc. v. City of Ladue

HYDE, Judge.

This action, which plaintiffs call declaratory judgment, sought to have the court determine that their ten acres of land zoned as residential should be rezoned as commercial and asked a mandatory injunction for that purpose. At the close of plaintiffs’ case, the trial court ordered judgment for defendants and plaintiffs have appealed.

As the basis for our jurisdiction plaintiffs say the refusal to rezone was arbitrary and unreasonable, deprives them of their property without due process of law and denies them of equal protection of the law in violation of the 14th Amendment to the…