Edel v. Filer Township

Defendant township appeals from a grant of summary judgment as a matter of law, GCR 1963, 117.2(3), in favor of plaintiff property owners, declaring the township’s 1954 zoning ordinance invalid. We reverse.

Plaintiffs, whose property has at all times since the adoption of the ordinance in question been zoned Ag-1: agricultural, attempted without success in April of 1972 to obtain from the township zoning authorities a rezoning of their property to a light industrial classification. Plaintiffs thereafter commenced this action by complaint filed July 21, 1972, alleging (1) that the ordinance…