Miller v. Tannenbaum

This is a suit in equity, brought in behalf of the city of Warwick by its building inspector, to enjoin the respondent, the owner and occupant of a certain parcel of land with buildings thereon in that city, from using a part of the land as a lumber yard in alleged violation of the zoning ordinance, and to compel the removal from such lumber yard of all the lumber piled thereon.

The main facts of the case are not seriously in dispute. The ordinance was enacted on April 17,1930, and by it these premises were classified as being in a business F district. When the classification became effective,…