Blundell v. City of West Helena

How courts have described this case

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• zoning ordinances, being in derogation of the common law, are to be construed strictly
• “It is widely recognized that a property owner has vested rights in a non-conforming use of his property.”
• in determining whether a landowner had a vested right to complete a use, court assessed whether landowner’s use was “substantial * * * at the time of [the] adoption of [the] zoning ordinance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).