Red Acres Imp. Club, Inc. v. Burkhalter

This bill was filed by fifteen owners of residences in a residential subdivision in Memphis and by the corporation connected therewith known as Red Acres Improvement Club. The defendants, Dr. Burkhalter and wife, are the owners of a rather handsome residence in that subdivision. Dr. Burkhalter is a physician and maintains a doctor’s office in that dwelling. The allegation of the bill is that he is conducting at this dwelling a “medical business house”, and that in so doing he is violating the Zoning Ordinance of Memphis, and thereby causing a very substantial depreciation in the value of the…