State Ex Rel. Hochfelder v. City of New Orleans

This is a mandamus proceeding brought by the plaintiff, who is a property owner, against the city of New Orleans, the city engineer, and the zoning board of appeal, to compel the issuance to him of a permit to use the ground floor of his building in its entirety for business purposes, and to demolish a partition wall therein, coupled with a prayer for injunction prohibiting the city and its officers from interfering with him in such use of the premises and the dismantling of said partition wall.

The court ordered defendant to show cause on a day fixed why writs of mandamus and injunction…