City of Jackson v. McPherson

Appellee filed his petition in the circuit court, and prayed a writ of mandamus to compel the governing board of appellant city to grant a building permit to ap-pellee for a filling* station at the corner of Carlisle and North State streets in said city. On the hearing the court ordered the mandatoiy writ as prayed.

Appellant relies on the statute commonly known as the Standard State Zoning Law, sections 6841-6848, Hemingway’s 1927 Code, and upon an ordinance passed by said city, under said law,' on April 16, 1929, by the terms of which ordinance the property here concerned was set apart and…