WENHAM v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES


333 Mass. 15 (1955)

127 N.E.2d 791

TOWN OF WENHAM vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk..

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Trafford, Town Counsel, for the plaintiff.

Matthew S. Heaphy, Assistant Attorney General, for the department of public utilities.

Sargent H. Wellman, (Lewis M. Stillman with him,) for the Haverhill Gas Light Company.

Present: QUA, C.J., WILKINS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


QUA, C.J.

This is a petition brought in this court by the town by way of appeal under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 25, § 5, as appearing in St. 1953, c. 575, § 1, from an order of the department dated December 17, 1954, made under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40A, § 10, inserted by St. 1954, c. 368, § 2, exempting from the operation of a zoning by-law of the town a parcel of land in a residence district for the purpose of...

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