Tel-Craft Civic Ass'n v. City of Detroit

The plaintiffs in this action seek an injunction to restrain defendants from constructing several multiple dwellings on a 32-acre parcel of land located at the intersection of Schoolcraft and Telegraph roads in the city of Detroit.

The land was purchased in 1929 by St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum as a site for an orphans’ home. In 1940 the council of the city of Detroit decided that a city zoning ordinance was needed. In preparing the proposed ordinance the city plan commission was called upon for assistance and, after some study, tentatively recommended that the 32-acre parcel be zoned R 1 which…