Hardemon v. Fish

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a writ of mandamus does not lie to compel a city to enforce its building code against third parties
• holding that mandamus action could not be maintained by private citizen to require enforcement of building or zoning codes
• finding inspections do not constitute performance of ministerial duty for which writ is available
• mandamus is not available to compel a governmental entity or official to inspect property for building or zoning violations
• no standing where plaintiff made no claim that it had suffered a special injury apart from the injury suffered by any member of the general public as a result of alleged building code violations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).