Court Opinion

ID: 9637302
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:02:44.486693+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:55.251401
License: Public Domain

Concubbing Opinion by
Me. Justice Bell:
This was an action of mandamus against Commissioners of Springfield Township to compel them to *53cause to be issued to plaintiffs a certificate of occupancy under the pertinent building code. The Commissioners defended on the ground that this was nothing more than an alleged violation of a zoning ordinance for which a permit was being sought and consequently under Jacobs v. Fetzer, 381 Pa. 262, 112 A. 2d 356, mandamus is not an available remedy. The building code and the zoning ordinance appear to be, in some respects, overlapping.
I believe the issue can be limited to an interpretation of the building .code and that therefore mandamus will lie: Travis v. Teter, 370 Pa. 326, 330, 331, 87 A. 2d 177; Garratt v. Philadelphia, 387 Pa. 442, 448, 127 A. 2d 738. For these reasons I concur in the Court’s affirmance of the judgment of the lower Court;