Castle Shannon Coal Corp. v. Upper St. Clair Township

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearne,

This Court in Mutual Supply Company Appeal, 366 Pa. 424, 77 A. 2d 612, decided in a zoning litigation that the board of adjustment was not guilty of a manifest and flagrant abuse of discretion in refusing to grant a certificate of variance. In that case the Castle Shannon Coal Corporation, the present appellant, the owner of certain coal lands, through the Mutual Supply Company, purchased certain surface land and applied for a building permit authorizing the construction of a tipple and accessory buildings. Such structures would have been in violation of…