Weicker Transfer & Storage Co. v. Council of Denver

Plaintiff in error, owner of certain vacant lots in the city of Denver, applied to the city council for a building permit authorizing the erection of a warehouse thereon. Its application was denied and it thereupon brought this action in mandamus. The district court held against it and to review that judgment it prosecutes this writ.

*476Section 207 of the building ordinance of the city and county of Denver provides that buildings used for certain purposes, including this proposed structure, “shall be restricted as to location,” that before the issuance of a permit the application “shall be…