City of North Miami v. Benjamin

By this appeal the City of North Miami seeks reversal of a post decretal order whereby the chancellor found that a certain ordinance was not sufficient compliance with a final decree. The appellee, Amos Benjamin, is the owner of a lot in the City of North Miami. He obtained in the circuit court relief from a zoning ordinance which was found to be so unreasonable and arbitrary as to be unconstitutional. By the final decree the defendant City of North Miami was directed to zone plaintiff’s property “to a use for which it is reasonably adapted”. The defendant city, although slow to respond,…