Whitpain Township v. Bodine

Opinion by

Me. J ustice Aenold,

This is an appeal from the decree of the court be low enjoining defendant’s use of Ms land as a “piggery-”

Under authority given by The Second Class Township Law of 1933, P. L. 103, as amended, 53 PS §19093-2001, et seq., plaintiff-township passed a zoMng ordinance, effective June 7, 1950, providing that: “No piggeries. . . will be permitted within the residential districts of this township.”

Defendant, a resident of New Jersey, owns approximately 67 acres of land in the township, which land the ordinance placed within the highest classification for residential…