Kerr v. City of Columbia

Stuices, Chief Justice.

This is an action in equity to require the City of Columbia to issue a building permit to the plaintiff to enable her to fulfill a contract with the Texas Company under which she agreed to raze the present residence on her property, build a service station and lease it to that company on a long term basis. Many of the facts were stipulated and most of those not stipulated, but developed by the testimony and exhibits, are not in dispute.

The property is located at the northeast corner of North Main Street and Hyatt Avenue, in the Eau Claire section of the City of…