State Ex Rel. Morehouse v. Hunt

The following opinion was filed May 7, 1940:

Fowler, J.

The action involves the construction of certain provisions of the zoning ordinance of the city of Madison. Neither the validity of the ordinance nor of the provisions herein involved is questioned. The appellant, the National Guardian Life Insurance Company, owns a building in a Class A district prescribed by the ordinance which limits the use of buildings within the district to use as single-family residences, except that nonconforming use of a building may be continued if the building was devoted to such use when the ordinance was…