INTERNATIONAL OCEANIC ENTERPRISES, INC. v. MENTON

No. 79-1814 Summary Calendar.

614 F.2d 502 (1980)

INTERNATIONAL OCEANIC ENTERPRISES, INC. ("IOE"), a Virginia Corporation, U. S. Marine, Inc., an Alabama Corporation, Michael Runyon and Robert A. Wilson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William MENTON, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 27, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry A. Fisher Law Offices, Barry A. Fisher, David Grosz, Los Angeles, Cal., Bryan, Nelson, Nettles & Cox, E. Elliott Barker, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Roderick P. Stout, Mobile, Ala., for Menton, Lacey, Goleman, Bryant, Hebert, Temme and Allender.

Before GODBOLD, REAVLEY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

In December 1977 International Oceanic Enterprises (IOE) purchased a tract of land in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, intending to use it for commercial purposes. At the time of purchase the tract was unzoned. The city's Community Development Plan, drawn up some six months prior to the purchase, recommended that the tract be zoned for commercial use, as it was in an industrial area. Nevertheless, after International...

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