Odabash v. MAYOR AND COUN. DUMONT

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Hall, J.

Stripped of non-vital procedural complications, this zoning case boils down to the rather narrow question of the validity, as applied to plaintiffs’ property, 1 of amendments of a municipal zoning ordinance prohibiting thereafter throughout the town the erection of previously allowed garden apartments and other multiple family dwellings for more than two families. The property in question had been zoned prior to the amendatory legislation to permit garden apartments and now constitutes practically an island in the midst of multi-family and…