Willison v. Cooke
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Denver District Court. — Hon. H. C. Riddle, Judge. Defendant in error, as petitioner, brought an action in mandamus against the plaintiff in error, as respondent, in his official capacity as building inspector of the city and county of Denver, the purpose of which was to compel him to issue a permit for the construction of a building on the southeast corner of Colfax avenue and Williams street.
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Error to Denver District Court. — Hon. H. C. Riddle, Judge. Defendant in error, as petitioner, brought an action in mandamus against the plaintiff in error, as respondent, in his official capacity as building inspector of the city and county of Denver, the purpose of which was to compel him to issue a permit for the construction of a building on the southeast corner of Colfax avenue and Williams street. In his petition, petitioner alleged that he was the owner of the lots in question; that respondent -was the duly appointed, qualified and acting building inspector of the city and county of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gabbert
From> the foregoing synopsis of the answer, in connection with admissions therein of allegations in the petition, and the ordinances set out haec verba, it appears that petitioner is the owner of lots upon which he desires to erect a store building in a district which the ordinances of the munifcipality inhibit, unless he first secures and files with the building inspector the signatures of a majority of the owners of property in the same block, on the same side of the street, and of the owners in the block on the opposite side of the street facing the same, approving of the erection of such…
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