Stafford v. Incorporated Village

Motion by petitioner to compel respondent to issue to petitioner a certificate of occupancy. Petitioner has erected a $75,000 ranch type residence in an area restricted to one family residences in respondent village and has applied for a certificate of occupancy which respondent has denied because respondent holds that the residence as constructed is a two-family dwelling. It seems that respondent had issued a building permit to petitioner on November 28, 1949, to erect this particular house. Petitioner made changes as the building was being constructed, one of which (the main objection of…