Green v. Copeland

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is a zoning case. The facts were stipulated.

For some 22 years the appellee has operated a restaurant on the property involved, where he sold beer under a license issued by the Alabama Beverage Control Board. On October 23, 1967, the ABC Board issued its order indefinitely suspending appellee’s license to sell beer on the premises. On February 6, 1968, the appellant Board of Commissioners adopted a zoning resolution changing the zoning of appellee’s premises from C-3 (where the sale of beer is allowed) to C-l (where the sale of beer is not allowed).

Thereupon, the appellee…