Case Name: STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EX REL. WILLIAM L. VANDERHOFF, RELATOR, v. JOHN G. SCOTT, BUILDING INSPECTOR OF THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, AND THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, RESPONDENTS
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1927-01-28
Citations: 5 N.J. Misc. 193
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EX REL. WILLIAM L. VANDERHOFF, RELATOR, v. JOHN G. SCOTT, BUILDING INSPECTOR OF THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, AND THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, RESPONDENTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 193–193

Head Matter:
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EX REL. WILLIAM L. VANDERHOFF, RELATOR, v. JOHN G. SCOTT, BUILDING INSPECTOR OF THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, AND THE CITY OF EAST ORANGE, RESPONDENTS.
Submitted October 10, 1926
Decided January 28, 1927.
Before Gummere, Ctttee Justice, and Justices Trestohabd and Minturn.
For the relator, William Tyache.
For the respondents, Walter O. Ellis.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The relator sought a building permit. He obtained an alternate writ of mandamus. There was a return to the writ and a demurrer to the return.
It thns appears that the relator desired to erect a two-story brick structure containing stores on the first floor and living apartments on the second floor, on the northerly side on Ninth avenue, in the city of Bast Orange, and that the sole reason for denying the permit was that the land in question, by a zoning ordinance, was limited to residential purposes, and a commercial store was prohibited thereby.
We think the case is controlled squarely by the decision in State v. Nutley, 99 N. J. L. 389. A peremptory writ of mandamus will issue.