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CITY OF MEMPHIS v. SHERWOOD BUILDING CORPORATION

343 S.W.2d 869 (1960)

CITY OF MEMPHIS et al. v. SHERWOOD BUILDING CORPORATION et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearding Denied March 10, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank B. Gianotti, Jr., E. Brady Bartusch, Memphis, for petitioners.

Laughlin, Watson & Creson, Thomas C. Farnsworth, Burch, Porter, Johnson & Brown, Memphis, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

The Board of Commissioners for the City of Memphis re-zoned from commercial to residential uses the whole of the 14.9 acre tract described in the pleadings. The owners of the Easternmost 6.2 acres thereof filed in Chancery a petition for common law writ of certiorari wherein it was alleged that the action of the City Commission in purporting to re-zone from commercial to residential use the 6.2 acres in question is, as to that property, confiscatory; hence...

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