# Ward's Appeal

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · March 17, 1927 · 289 Pa. 458

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/3851143

## Case

- **Full name:** Ward's Appeal.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** March 17, 1927
- **Citations:** 289 Pa. 458; 137 A. 630; 1927 Pa. LEXIS 586
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Sohaffeb
- **Judges:** Sohaffeb, Moschzisker, Frazer, Walling, Kephart, Sadler, Schaefer
- **Cited by:** 55 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding board of zoning appeals nonviolative of article III, sec. 20

## Opinion text

Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Sohaffeb:
I am not willing to assent to the view that a city zoning board may deny to a landowner the right to devote his property to business uses where it has been so used prior to the passage of the zoning ordinance. It may be that zoning ordinances which prohibit the right to erect business structures in purely residential neighborhoods should be upheld, but where a neighborhood already has a business building located therein, I think no board should have the power to compel the discontinuance of such use for reasons aesthetic or otherwise. To me this seems an unreasonable exercise of the police power.

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