City of Detroit v. S. Loewenstein & Son

On December 18, 1950, the city of Detroit filed a bill of complaint in the Wayne county circuit court in chancery to enjoin the defendant S. Loewenstein & Son from erecting and operating a slaughterhouse and rendering plant on certain property owned by said defendant near the intersection of Dix avenue and Vernor highway in Detroit. The ground on which the city sought the injunction was that the city plan commission had not made the requisite finding of fact as required by section 17.1(3) of the zoning ordinance, namely, a finding that the proposed use would not be injurious to the…