State ex rel. Carter v. Harper
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. Mandamus to compel the issuance of a building permit. The relator is in the wholesale and retail milk and dairy products business in the city of Milwaukee. In September, 1919, he purchased a lot and erected thereon a building which he is using as a dairy and milk pasteurizing plant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Oscar M. Fritz, Circuit Judge. Mandamus to compel the issuance of a building permit. The relator is in the wholesale and retail milk and dairy products business in the city of Milwaukee. In September, 1919, he purchased a lot and erected thereon a building which he is using as a dairy and milk pasteurizing plant. During the summer of 1921 he found that his business had outgrown the capacity of his plant to such an extent that it became impossible for him to conduct his business in said building in accordance with city and state…
1Opinion of the Court
Owén, J.
The so-called zoning ordinance of the city of Milwaukee establishes within said city four classes of use districts designated: residence districts, local business districts, commercial and light manufacturing districts, and industrial districts. Relator’s property is within a residence district. The ordinance then prescribes the uses to which property within the districts so created may be devoted. The present use of relator’s property does not conform to the use permitted by the ordinance in residence districts. The ordinance further provides that no building within a residence…
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