State Ex Rel. Craven v. City of Tacoma

Relators seek a writ of mandamus to compel the city of Tacoma to issue them a building permit. Their property is situated in the North Shore Country Club Estates of northeast Tacoma. From a judgment denying the writ, relators appeal.

We are controlled by the facts as the court declared them in its findings. The North Shore Country Club Estates, Inc., grantor to relator by warranty deed, owns a large tract of land in northeast Tacoma. It platted these lands and filed the plat thereof for record in the office of the Pierce County' Auditor; it likewise made surveys for many, and actually put in,…