# Sheedy v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · January 22, 1963 · 409 Pa. 655

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9758041

## Case

- **Full name:** Sheedy, Appellant, v. Zoning Board of Adjustment
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** January 22, 1963
- **Citations:** 409 Pa. 655; 187 A.2d 907; 1963 Pa. LEXIS 722
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Cohen
- **Judges:** Bell, Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien, Keim
- **Cited by:** 38 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Limited by Pae v. Hilltown Township Zoning Hearing Board, 35 Pa. Commw. 229 (1978).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 3
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9758041

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that a zoning board of adjustment improperly denied a variance because enormous expenditures were necessary to restore the property to compliance, stating "it would be most inequitable and unjust to re fuse to grant a variance in this exceptional case”

## Opinion text

*660 Dissenting Opinion by
Mr. Justice Cohen:
■ The record here comes to us with 40 pages of colloquy and 7 pages of testimony. Since the unsworn statements of counsel differ materially, I find myself without the factual basis necessary to arrive at a proper legal determination of this controversy. I would, therefore, remand this case to the zoning board so that the board might compile the necessary record and tahe appropriate action based on that record.

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