City of West Helena v. Bockman

Dr. James Bockman, appellee, a practicing physician, has, since 1937, operated a Clinic in a structure within that part of the City of West Helena (population 7,000) designated, by a Zoning Ordinance, (No. 494 enacted April 17, 1951) as Residential Zone “A”. The building housing his Clinic is one story, on a lot 66 ft. x 132 ft., and consists of six rooms — an X-Ray room, a laboratory, examining room, one bath room, two waiting rooms (one for white and the other for Negro patients), and a porch, 21 ft. x 8 ft. Appellee’s residence is in another part of the city.

Dr. Bookman made proper…