City and County of Denver v. American Oil Company

This writ of error concerns the validity of a zoning ordinance of the City and County of Denver. The action began as a declaratory judgment suit by Francis M. and Prudence M. Green, who later transferred title to the land in question to the American Oil Company, a Maryland Corporation. We shall refer to.the parties as Denver and American.

American is now the owner of the northwest corner of South Federal Boulevard and West Jewell Avenue within Denver’s corporate limits. The tract of land is rectangular in shape and extends 100 feet along Federal and 250 feet along Jewell. The Federal frontage…