Court Opinion

ID: 9506863
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:14:43.594303+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:09.733173
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE DALY
(specially concurring) :
I concur with the majority that to prevent unnecessarily harsh results to the common weal in selected cases, where the facts permit, an equitable exception to the rule can be applied.. However, once committed to this rationale the Court must proceed to do equity.
Here the majority has given the Barkers the right to a fair review upon proper application. I assume this would be before the municipal authorities, in which case this result could have been obtained without the aid of this Court.
These people asked for the right to proceed to assemble and occupy a two-wide preconstructed home on their property, not carte blanche authority to move any house onto the property. The housing unit is gone by repossession, but nowhere in the record is it indicated it cannot or will not be replaced.
Therefore, the appellants have gained nothing unless equity gives them the relief prayed for.