O. P. Corp. v. Lewis

WEHLE, VICTOR O., Associate Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory, judgment in an action in which a municipal corporation, The Village of North Palm Beach, sought a declaration as to its right or duty under a zoning ordinance to issue a final building permit for a large apartment house to the defendants who had previously secured from the Village a foundation permit and had substantially completed the foundation at great expense. The Village claimed that the ordinance was invalid.

The evidence established certain facts which we now summarize. On August 14, 1957, the Village enacted a…