Beal v. Building Commissioner

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court that judgment be entered for the issuance of a writ of mandamus “ordering the building inspector1 [of the city of Springfield] to enforce the zoning . . . [ordinance] as it existed with respect to the locus, prior to the amendment *641of February 17, 1964 [which reclassified the locus from Residence B to Business A] and ordering the city clerk to record the court’s action on the appropriate records and zoning maps of the city.” The petitioners are owners of nearby property.

The evidence is reported. The trial judge viewed the premises and made…