Case ID: nj-misc_5/html/0513-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HERMAN & COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, RELATOR, v. JOHN G. SCOTT, INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS OF THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, AND THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, RESPONDENTS.
    Argued January 19, 1927
    Decided May 13, 1927.
    Zoning — Stores and Apartments in Residence Territory — Case Within the Rule in the Nutley Case.
    On application for mandamus. On demurrer to return to an alternative writ.
    Before Gummbbe, Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Tjkenohabd.
    Eor the relator, Philip J. Schoiland.
    
    Eor the respondents, Walter C. EUis.
    
   Per Curiam.

The relator applied to the building inspector of the city of East Orange for a permit to erect a two-story brick building containing five stores on the ground floor and apartments for four families on the second floor.

The permit was refused because, under the zoning ordinance of the city, the property was located in the small volume residence district, in which district no building containing stores and apartments is permitted.

We think the case is controlled by the case of State v. Nutley, 99 N. J. L. 389. That case in the Court of Errors and Appeals is binding on this court in the absence of modification by that court, and as yet there has been none.

The relator is entitled to judgment, with costs, and a peremptory writ will issue.