State Ex Rel. Stephens v. City of Jacksonville

The plaintiff in error applied to the authorities of the City of Jacksonville for a permit to 'build a garage to be used in connection with funeral parlors or mortuary which he proposed to conduct on the lot on which he sought to build the garage. The permit was refused because there was an ordinance No. U-146 which prescribed territory within the City of Jacksonville within which the business of an undertaker, embalmer, funeral director or mortician may be established or carried on, which territory did not include the lot or lots upon which it was sought by the permit to acquire authority to…