People Ex Rel. Shell Oil Co. v. City of Chicago

The Circuit Court granted a writ of mandamus to the petitioner, Shell Oil Company, which ordered the City of Chicago and the other respondents to issue driveway permits to Shell for the southeast corner of Ashland Avenue and Howard Street, Chicago.

The petitioner is the lessee of the real estate at this location and desires to construct an automobile service station there which is a permitted use under the zoning ordinance of the City of Chicago. To that end it filed an application for driveway permits in April 1967 and later submitted applications for the permits requisite to the erection of…