LIVINGSTON ROCK ETC. CO. v. COUNTY OF L.A.

Docket No. L.A. 22991.

43 Cal.2d 121 (1954)

272 P.2d 4

LIVINGSTON ROCK AND GRAVEL COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 25, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, and Edward H. Gaylord, Deputy County Counsel, for Appellant.

Denio, Hart, Taubman & Simpson for Respondents.


SPENCE, J.

Plaintiffs sought to enjoin the county of Los Angeles from enforcing against them certain zoning ordinance provisions which would prohibit them from conducting a cement mixing plant in a rezoned district. They recovered judgment upon the premise that the ordinance provisions in question could not be constitutionally applied to require the removal of their existing business as a nonconforming use, and therefore "any action purportedly taken under ... such...

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