City of Providence v. Estate of Tarro

OPINION

Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

The plaintiff, City of Providence (city), appeals from a Superior Court judgment granting a writ of mandamus compelling the city’s building official to issue a demolition permit to the defendants, Estate of Stephen A. Tarro, Richard M. Tarro, Michael A. Tarro, and Patricia A. Tarro (defendants or the Tarros). 1 The trial justice ordered the building official to issue a demolition permit to the defendant owners of the former Grove Street School after he concluded that the structure was a public safety hazard. The city contends that mandamus was not…