SHERMAN v. REAVIS

21034

273 S.C. 542 (1979)

257 S.E.2d 735

Harold I. SHERMAN and Minnie R. Sherman, Respondents, v. Paul REAVIS, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., the City Council of the City of Charleston (J. Rutledge Young, Jr., Jerome Kinloch, Daniel L. Richardson, Hilda Hutchinson Jefferson, Arthur W. Christopher, Brenda C. Scott, George A.Z. Johnson, Jr., Mary R. Ader, James B. Moore, Jr., Wacon L. Stephens, Jr., and Henry E. Grimball, constituting members of the City Council), Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

August 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Regan and Alice F. Paylor, Charleston, for appellants.

Harvey M. Spar, Charleston, for respondents.


August 20, 1979.

RHODES, Justice:

This appeal is from a lower court order entered in an action of mandamus directing the City of Charleston to issue respondents, the Shermans, building permits for the construction of billboards upon their property. We reverse, concluding that the denial of the permits by the City was proper in view of a legally pending zoning ordinance which would prohibit the Shermans' intended use...

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