Mayor &C. of Savannah v. Collins

Candler, Justice.

This litigation, arose when 25 resident homeowners filed a suit to enjoin the defendants from erecting a fire station in an area of the City of Savannah which had been zoned for residences, apartments, and churches and on land which the city had acquired before the area was so zoned. In substance, the petition, after being twice amended, alleges that the City of Savannah cannot lawfully erect a fire station on land, though owned by it, which has been zoned for other and different uses; that the land which the city proposes to use as a location for a fire station had been…