County of Knox v. City of Creighton

The County of Knox, plaintiff in the court below, appeals from the order of the trial court dismissing its amended petition against the defendant-appellee, City of Creighton, on the ground the petition fails to state a cause of action. We reverse.

The operating factual allegations of the county’s petition state: It is the agency properly entrusted with the responsibility of enforcing the city’s zoning and development regulations; the city was denied the building permit for which it had applied; but the city nonetheless erected a large industrial storage building for the storage of machinery…