A building permit, moreover, for such use had been duly issued to him but was later suspended as a result of litigation instituted by objectors under a lately enacted zoning amendment which was hurriedly introduced and passed in an obvious effort to prevent the owner's proposed use of his property.

Following the defendant's purchase of the property, he paid relatively large sums on account of the purchase price bound himself by his bond, secured by a mortgage of the property, for the payment of a substantial balance and also incurred other large expenses and obligations in furtherance of his contemplated use of the property. The case involves a municipal attempt to re-zone a narrowly limited area in a way that would prevent the owner of the principal part of the area from developing his property for a use wholly permissible, at the time of his acquisition of it, under applicable and then long extant zoning regulations. Of them filed brief in this court or asked leave to present oral argument. A number of interested persons and organizations were allowed by the court below to intervene as parties plaintiff, but none * The learned court below entered a final decree dismissing the bill of complaint and the plaintiff took this appeal. The plaintiff, a township of the first class, sought by this suit in equity to enjoin the defendant from erecting an apartment house on a tract of land owned by him and located within the township.

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