People ex rel. Standard Bill Posting Co. v. Hastings

We have here two motions, argued and submitted together. The first is for an injunction pendente lite in a suit in equity, brought to restrain the city of Mew-burgh and its officers from removing and destroying a billboard owned by the plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the advertising business. The second is a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the building inspector of the city of Hewburgh to forthwith approve plans for, and consent to the construction of, a closed fence or bill-board which the relator Standard Bill Posting. Company has planned to erect within the limits of…