State, Ex Rel. Sprigley v. Woodworth

The sole question, therefore, before us is whether or not the defendant, having found that the relator’s property was in a residential district, had power because of that fact to refuse her a permit to build a gasoline filling, station upon the lot in question. In Pritz v. Messer, 112 OS. 628, the Supreme Court sustained a zoning ordinance which comprehended the entire city of Cincinnati, and under the authority of that case if the defendant in this case could justify his action under an ordinance that zoned the entire city of Athens he would be warranted in his refusal of a permit in this…