State, Ex Rel. Ricketts v. Balsly

When the Board of County Commissioners of Hamilton County, on August 10, 1949, adopted the resolution, zoning the unincorporated territory of the county, the relator was the owner of 13.50 acres of land situated in unincorporated territory, upon a part of which he operated a “mobile home site” equipped to accommodate 60 trailers, assembled on a certain part of the tract nearest to Dawson Road, over which was the only public access to the entire tract. This whole tract was zoned as “Residence B,” which made the operation of a mobile home site a nonconforming use.

The relator from the beginning…