Biske v. City of Troy

Plaintiffs’ complaint, filed January 21, 1964, presents another zoning cause against the city of Troy. The cause alleged is essentially equitable in nature and differs in that regard from Brae Burn, Inc., v. City of Bloomfield Hills (1957), 350 Mich 425, a case we shall presently consider. Here the equitable features of plaintiffs’ cause are of importance in conjunction with our monotonously repeated precepts that “in determining the reasonableness of a zoning ordinance each case must be determined upon its own facts” 1 and that considerable weight is given to the findings of trial judges…