KLINE ZONING CASE


395 Pa. 122 (1959)

Kline Zoning Case.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., with him MacCoy, Evans & Lewis, and Wright, Mauck, Hawes and Spencer, and John E. Forsythe, Township Solicitor, for appellant.

Elkins Wetherill, with him Knox Henderson, and Henderson, Wetherill & O'Hey, for appellees.

Before JONES, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN and McBRIDE, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, March 16, 1959:

The lower court incorrectly granted a variance from a thirty foot set back requirement in an R-4 residential district in Lower Merion Township, permitting the enclosure of a front porch which would encroach upon the required minimum front yard line by approximately three and one-half feet. The zoning board having determined that no unnecessary hardship had been shown denied the variance. The lower court decreed that the...

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