Cassel v. Mayor of Baltimore

This suit in equity was instituted by seven residents of the Howard Park section of Baltimore (1) to annul Ordinance 632, approved April 1, 1949, which amends the Baltimore City Zoning Ordinance by reclassifying the property at 5118 Gwynn Oak Avenue, owned by Ellsworth Armacost and his wife, from residential to first commercial use district for the purpose of permitting them to conduct a funeral home on the premises, (2) to direct Paul A. Cohen, Buildings Engineer, to revoke the permit issued to them to use the property as a funeral home, and (3) to restrain them from using the property as…