STATE EX REL. WEN. ETC. v. CITY OF WENATCHEE

No. 33589.

50 Wn.2d 378 (1957)

312 P.2d 195

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, on the Relation of Wenatchee Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Appellant, v. THE CITY OF WENATCHEE et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

June 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell D. Sperline (Hayden C. Covington, of counsel), for appellant.

James Arneil, for respondents.


FINLEY, J.

The Wenatchee Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is appealing from the refusal of the trial court to mandamus the board of adjustment and the city engineer to issue a special use or zoning permit for the building of a church in a zoned residential (R-1) district of the city of Wenatchee.

Section III of ordinance No. 1117 zones the city into (a) two residential districts, R-1 and R-2; (b) a commercial district, C-1; and (c) an industrial district...

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