Hughes v. Board of Appeals

On August 20, 1925, the commissioner of buildings of the city of Chicago revoked a permit which had been issued on July 28 to E. F. Tolbert to make alterations in a building at the northeast corner of Fifty-fifth street and Everett avenue. William Hughes, who was the real owner of the premises though the title was in Tolbert, who was his employee, appealed from the order of the commissioner to the board of appeals under the zoning ordinance of the city of Chicago, which entered its order on September 15 confirming the order of the commissioner. Hughes sued out of the circuit court a writ of…