Wicker Apartments, Inc. v. City of Richmond

A decision of the Board of Zoning Appeals of the City of Richmond was appealed to the trial court by Wicker Apartments, Incorporated. The decision approved, over the objection of Wicker Apartments, the right of the City of Richmond to a permit under section 17.20(c) of its charter to construct a Juvenile Detention Home upon land owned by the city, allegedly contrary to the zoning regulations to which the city was subject.

The case was tried in the court below without a jury, upon the “certificate of records and documents” certified by the board to the court upon a writ of certiorari and upon…