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HIGHWAY 100 AUTO WRECKERS v. WEST ALLIS

6 Wis.2d 637 (1959)

HIGHWAY 100 AUTO WRECKERS, INC., and others, Respondents, v. CITY OF WEST ALLIS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

April 7, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant there was a brief and oral argument by George A. Schmus, city attorney, and Charles G. Panosian, assistant city attorney.

For the respondents there was a brief by A. M. Chudnow, Earl F. Keegan, Jr., and Richard Y. Fisher, attorneys, and Harry A. Kovenock of counsel, all of Milwaukee, and oral argument by Mr. Chudnow.

BROWN, J.

This is a problem of licensing and regulating an occupation. It is not a zoning case, but the zoning classifications in which plaintiffs' properties are located indicate the environment where plaintiffs' businesses are conducted. Plaintiff Wauwatosa Auto Salvage, Inc., is in a "Heavy Commercial District," a zone which does not permit salvage and wrecking establishments, but its occupation there antedates the zoning...

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