City of West University Place v. Martin

GRAVES, Justice.

The appellees — one of them the owner of a building lot located within what had been designated by the city’s zoning ordinance as its “Seventh single-family dwelling-district,” the other being his contractor for the erection of a building on that lot under agreed-upon plans between them —sought in this suit against the appellant, the city of West University Place, along with the members of its governing body, the issuance of a writ of mandamus compelling it to issue them a building permit for the erection of a frame or wooden building upon the lot as they had planned, and that…