Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Louis Marks, Respondent, for a Peremptory Mandamus Order to Compel Edward Gombert and Others, as Fire Commissioners of the Roosevelt Fire District, Nassau County, New York, Appellants, to Reinstate Said Louis Marks as a Member and Captain of Roosevelt Hose Company, No. 1, of the Roosevelt Fire District, Nassau County, New York
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1929-02
Citations: 225 A.D. 875
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Frank A. Canberg, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against Albert E. Kleinert, as Superintendent of Buildings of the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 225
Pages: 875–876

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Frank A. Canberg, Appellant, for an Order of Mandamus against Albert E. Kleinert, as Superintendent of Buildings of the Borough of Brooklyn, City and State of New York, Respondent.

Opinion:
Order denying motion for peremptory mandamus order and order denying motion for reargument unanimously affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements. If the property in question was, at the time of the passage of the Building Zone Resolution, devoted to a non-conforming use, that use might be continued, and relator would be entitled to the certificate of occupancy as matter of strict legal right, to enforce which mandamus would he. But the premises were not at that time devoted to such non-conforming use, and respondent's refusal of the certificate was, therefore, justified. Present — Lazansky, P. J., Rich, Young, Carswell and Scudder, JJ.