King v. Bourgeois

Lavern Bourgeois, the duly appointed Building Official for Ascension Parish, appeals a judgment making a writ of mandamus peremptory and ordering him in his official capacity to revoke a building permit issued to an Ascension Parish landowner. The trial court concluded that the building permit should not have been issued based on its interpretation of the building code in effect when the permit was issued. The trial court noted that the case was difficult to decide.

For the following reasons, we conclude that the writ of mandamus was improvidently granted and made peremptory. Accordingly, we…