Better Built Homes & Mortgage Co. v. Nolte

This is an original proceeding in mandamus issuing out of this court agaist the respondents as Mayor and members of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri, whereby it is sought to require respondents in their official capacity to approve a plat of a certain tract of land as a sub-division of said city.

Relator’s petition, which was afterwards incorporated into and made a part of our alternative writ, states, in substance, that the relator is a corporation engaged in the business of owning, subdividing and selling land; that it is the owner and proprietor of a…