City of Shreveport v. Dickason

The defendant is the owner of four lots of ground in the Guy & Stinson subdivision of the city of Shreveport. She applied to the building inspector for a permit to erect a gasoline filling station on the property. The permit was denied, and she instituted mandamus proceedings to compel its issuance. The defense to that suit was that Ordinances Nos. 7 of 1922 and 235 of 1923 of the city of Shreveport had zoned the section of the city in which plaintiff’s 'lots were situated, and the erection of business buildings within the territorial limits fixed in said ordinances was prohibited.…