City of Miami Beach v. First Trust Co.

The appellee, First Trust Company, trustee of the Firestone Estate, filed a bill of complaint October 25, 1944 against the appellant, City of Miami Beach, attacking a zoning ordinance, passed December 3, 1930, as unreasonable, arbitrary, confiscatory, and invalid, and containing a prayer that the defendant be enjoined from interfering with rental of rooms and apartments in the buildings now located on certain property or the construction upon it of hotels and apartment houses "now permitted to the property immediately adjoining it to the south * * *."

As described in the bill, the land…