Fox v. City of Springfield

The owners of two adjoining lots, located in Springfield, brought suit in the circuit court of Sangamon County to restrain the city from enforcing a zoning ordinance whereby the property was restricted to residential use. A number of residents in the area were permitted to intervene as parties defendant, and after a hearing the chancellor declared the ordinance unconstitutional in its application to the property and granted the plaintiffs’ prayer for injunction. He thereafter certified that the validity of a municipal ordinance is involved and that the public interest requires a direct appeal…