BLEVENS v. MANCHESTER

No. 4870.

103 N.H. 284 (1961)

CLARENCE G. BLEVENS & a. v. MANCHESTER.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Decided April 28, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emile R. Bussiere (by brief and orally), for the plaintiffs.

J. Francis Roche, city solicitor (by brief and orally), for the defendant.


KENISON, C. J.

The power of the State to pass enabling legislation permitting municipal ordinances to regulate the subdivision of land has been sustained generally as a proper exercise of the police power. Anno. 11 A. L. R. 2d 524; Webster, Urban Planning and Municipal Public Policy, ch. 9 (1958); Note, Land Subdivision Control, 65 Harv. L. Rev. 1226 (1952). "Since the subdivision of a large tract of land into a number of...

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