Crist v. Mapleton City

ELLETT, Justice:

The plaintiffs herein filed a petition for and obtained from the trial court a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant Paul Cherrington (the building inspector and zoning administrator for Mapleton City) to issue to the plaintiffs a building permit for the alteration of a “single family” dwelling *8into a school for boys. .The defendants appeal.

The petition originally requested the court to compel Mapleton City, a body corporate and politic of the State of Utah, to issue the permit, but later was amended to eliminate Mapleton City and to include the defendant, Cherrington. No…