Delawanna Iron and Metal Co. v. Albrecht

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

We are concerned here with the legal sufficiency of a zoning regulation purporting to render the existing use of plaintiff’s lands nonconforming and therefore inextensible.

Por 20 years or more the plaintiff corporation has conducted a scrap metal business on lands comprising 1 % acres situate in Clifton, New Jersey, in an industrial district delineated by the local zoning ordinance, under a permit issued pursuant to another ordinance regulating junk yards. It has had ownership of the land for the past seven years. It sells 'scrap metal in…