State ex rel. Bookbinder v. Town of Irvington , 5 N.J. Misc. 568 ( 1927 )

Per Curiam.

The relators are the owners of a plot of ground on the northwesterly side of Elmwood avenue and Headley Terrace, in the town of Irvington. They applied to the building superintendent of the town for a permit authorizing them to erect on this plot a building to be used for stores on the first floor and apartments on the second floor. The application was refused upon the sole ground that the zoning ordinance of the town prohibited the erection of such a building in that locality. The relator thereupon applied for and obtained an alternative writ of mandamus, calling upon the respondents to issue to the relator the permit requested or to show good cause to the contrary thereof.

In making return to the writ, the respondents made no attempt to justify the refusal of the building superintendent upon any other ground than that the ordinance of the town prohibited the erection of such a building upon the relator’s property.

The case thus presented is identical in its legal essence with that of State v. Nutley, 99 N. J. L. 389. As the decision of the case cited was by the Court of Errors and Appeals, it is controlling upon us.

A peremptory writ will be awarded to the relator, together with costs of suit.