Schueller v. Board of Adjustment of City of Dubuque

Intervenor, Wartburg Theological Seminary, a nonprofit religious and educational institution located in Dubuque, owned and operated by the American Lutheran Church, a religious corporation, applied to the building commissioner of Dubuque for a permit to erect a married students’ dormitory to house twenty married students, their wives and children, on its campus on a vacant lot adjoining plaintiff’s property. The application states that this is the first of five such dormitories intervenor plans to erect on its campus.

The campus of intervenor consists of thirty-three acres acquired in 1888.…