Jennings' Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Linn,
The appellants, trustees of the Estate of Edward H. Jennings, deceased, appealed to the common pleas from the decision of the Board of Adjustment under the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Pittsburgh. Their peti tion set forth that they had applied to the Bureau of Building Inspection for leave “to permit the occupancy of [certain] premises as a Fraternity House by the Rho Chapter of Phi Kappa Fraternity of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which at the present time has a Lease on said premises”; that leave had been refused “for the reason that said use was…
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