STATE v. GUFFEY

No. 45617.

306 S.W.2d 552 (1957)

STATE of Missouri ex rel. Percy M. LUDLOW, Ann Rice Ludlow, and Continental Oil Company, a Corporation, Respondents, v. William F. GUFFEY, as Mayor of the City of Webster Groves, a Municipal Corporation; William F. Guffey, Ward Ficke, Harold E. Knight, Benjamin E. Thomas, Charles Moran, John H. Carter, and Earl Salveter, as Members of the City Council of the City of Webster Groves, a Municipal Corporation; Frank C. Huntsman, as Building Inspector and Building Commissioner of the City of Webster Groves, a Municipal Corporation; and E. H. Healy, as City Clerk of the City of Webster Groves, a Municipal Corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri. En Banc

November 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Green, Hennings, Henry & Evans, by J. Porter Henry, Robert D. Evans, St. Louis, for appellants.

Fordyce, Mayne, Hartman, Renard & Stribling, Joseph R. Long, Harold A. Thomas, Jr., St. Louis, for respondents.


COIL, Commissioner.

Mandamus to compel the building commissioner, other city officials, and councilmen of Webster Groves, a municipal corporation, to issue to relators building and occupancy permits required by a city ordinance. After a trial on stipulated facts a peremptory writ was ordered and the officials have appealed.

Percy M. Ludlow and his wife, Ann, owned a lot 122'8"x82'9" at the southeast corner of Lockwood and Jefferson in

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