Eddy v. Avon Township

The plaintiffs are owners of property in Avon Township, Oakland County, that is zoned single-family residential. They claimed that this zoning was unreasonable, but the trial judge concluded that they had failed in their burden of showing unreasonableness. The Court of Appeals reversed:

"[W]e have a definite and firm conviction that the plaintiffs have met their burden and affirmatively proved that as to their respective parcels the ordinance is arbitrary and unreasonable and that no governmental interest is advanced by the present zoning classification which is, on the contrary, confiscatory.…