Livingston Rock & Gravel Co. v. County of Los Angeles

Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the county of Los Angeles from enforcing against them certain zoning ordinance provisions which would prohibit them from conducting a cement mixing plant in a rezoned district. They recovered judgment upon the premise that the ordinance provisions in question could not be constitutionally applied to require the removal of their existing business as a nonconforming use, and therefore “any action purportedly taken under . . . such provisions [was] invalid and [had] no effect as to . . . plaintiffs. ’ ’ Defendant challenges the propriety of this judgment on these…