Finley v. Addis

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

While this case sounds in declaratory relief, yet the Court of Appeals transferred it to this *624court because the specific prayer “that the defendant be required to grant to your petitioner a building permit” would authorize relief in mandamus under Ga. L. 1959, p. 236 (Code Ann. § 110-1102 (a); Ga. L. 1945, p. 137; 1959, pp. 236, 237) thereby giving this court jurisdiction. Examination of the pleadings discloses mere conclusions of the pleader that the reasons given by the General Inspector of the City of East Point for the refusal to issue the building permit “are not…