Drysdale v. Beachnau

This is an appeal from the denial by the Ingham county circuit court of plaintiffs’ bill of complaint seeking to restrain the operation of defendants’ garbage dump because of claimed zoning ordinance violation.

Plaintiffs are neighboring property owners in a rural area of Ingham county — the nearest of whose residences to the dump in question appears from the testimony to be 1/4 of a mile. They seek injunctive relief, relying on an agricultural zoning provision in a township zoning ordinance enacted in 1954.

Defendants contend that the garbage dump operation at the site in question preceded the…