Case Name: City of Youngstown v. Kahn Brothers Building Co.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 332
Docket Number: No. 18727
Parties: City of Youngstown v. Kahn Brothers Building Co.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur. Robinson, J., concurs in the judgment.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 332–332

Head Matter:
No. 508
No. 18727
City of Youngstown v. Kahn Brothers Building Co.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Mahoning County.
874. ORDINANCE—Restricting building of' apartment in small part of municipality where public health, safety and morals would not’ be endangered; constitutes taking' of property without due process of law.

Opinion:
ALLEN, J.
A provision in an ordinance establishing a fraction only of the territory of a municipality into a district, and providing that no building which is intended to be used as a dwelling shall be erected within the district except as a single or two-family dwelling, in a case where the record shows that the district is a most healthful part of the municipality in which to erect an apartment house and that the public health, morals and safety of the district and of the entire municipality will not be impaired by the erection of such an apartment house, constitutes a taking of property without due process of law and a taking of private property for public use without compensation, and is invalid.
Judgment affirmed.
Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur. Robinson, J., concurs in the judgment.