People ex rel. Evens v. Kleinert
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Morris B. Evens, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of March, 1922, denying his motion for a peremptory mandamus order requiring the superintendent of the bureau of buildings, borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, to forthwith cancel an order made by said superintendent on February 9, 1922, which canceled a building permit previously issued…
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Appeal by the petitioner, Morris B. Evens, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 20th day of March, 1922, denying his motion for a peremptory mandamus order requiring the superintendent of the bureau of buildings, borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, to forthwith cancel an order made by said superintendent on February 9, 1922, which canceled a building permit previously issued by said superintendent and also to cancel his revocation of the said permit and the plans recited therein.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, J.:
In December, 1921, the petitioner caused plans to be prepared for a seventeen-family apartment house to be erected upon certain premises owned by him in the borough of Brooklyn. On January 4, 1922, after approval of the plans by the tenement house department, he filed them with the superintendent of buildings and applied for a permit to construct the building. On February 8, 1922, the defendant approved the plans and issued the permit. The plans cost the petitioner $1,000. On February 7, 1922, he made a contract with one Lombardi to excavate the lot and dig trenches for the…
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