Devereux Foundation, Inc., Zoning Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

We are here called upon to deal with a type of controversy in which .two.interests, each in itself legitimate and wholly commendable, come into conflict merely by reason of the proximity of their locations. The one interest is that of a school devoted to the education of men tally deficient, weak and abnormal children, and the other that of the inhabitants of a fine residential suburban section who oppose the housing therein of the pupils of such an institution.

The Devereux School, begun in 1918, was incorporated in 1938 as a non-profit corporation of the…