Ellicott v. Mayor of Baltimore

The appellants, including owners of property in Baltinore City in an area zoned as a residential district, and a taxpayer, appealed to the Baltimore City Court from a fuling of the Board of Zoning Appeals of the City uthorizing the establishment of a filling station on a ingle lot in the district, and from an affirmance of the ruling below appeal to this court. The lot is 100 feet by 145 feet in size, and by an ordinance of the city, No. 323, was rezoned as a first commercial district, and the appellants attack both the validity of the ordinance and the Board’s action in the exercise of a…