Standard Oil Co. v. City of Bowling Green

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Dietzman — •

Reversing.

In 1923 the appellant, 'Standard Oil Company, erected at the corner of High and Broadway streets, in the city of Bowling Green, a gasoline service station. The lot on which the appellant constructed this building was small, just large enough to accommodate the service station which was of the typical drive-in type built of brick and concrete, 14x21 feet in size, and with space for two pumps; the storage tanks being imbeded in the ground. The cost of the lot and 'building1 was about $12,000. Since 1924 this service station has been…