Beveridge v. Harper & Turner Oil Trust

This case presents another chapter in the record of the constant struggle between individual property owners, who seek to use their property in accordance with the dictates of their own judgment, and municipal governmental authorities, who seek to limit and restrict the use of private property under the police power of the state as delegated to municipalities.

By the provisions of a zoning ordinance enacted by the city council of Oklahoma City, the area embraced within the limits of that city has been classified and divided into two classes wifh respect to its possible use for development and…