Averch v. City & County of Denver

Averch brought suit against the city of Denver and members of the council, the mayor and building inspector, praying an injunction to restrain them from prosecuting him for violating the building ordinance by the erection of a packing house, and, in the alternative, a mandamus or other process to compel a permit for such erection. He was defeated and brings error.

The judgment must be affirmed. His claim is that a permit was issued to him by the building inspector, pursuant to which he expended a large sum in and about the erection of a building, and, under Williams v. Smith, 76 Colo. 151, 230…