Breckweg v. Knochenmus

Plaintiffs-petitioners seek a writ of mandamus to compel the supervisors of Mapleton Township to issue them a building permit for erection of a gasoline filling station. Their property is situated about three miles north of the corporate limits of the city of Sioux Falls on U. S. Highway 77 about l/8th mile north of where such highway intersects Interstate Highway 90. From a judgment granting a peremptory writ, the township board and certain adjoining and neighboring property owners who were granted leave to intervene appeal.

The legislature in 1959 amended the statute which grants powers to…