RICE v. BOARD OF APPEALS OF DENNIS


342 Mass. 499 (1961)

174 N.E.2d 355

BEVERLY A. RICE & another vs. BOARD OF APPEALS OF DENNIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

May 1, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard B. Gould, for the plaintiffs.

No argument nor brief for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

This bill in equity, purportedly under G.L.c. 40A, § 21, inserted by St. 1954, c. 368, § 2, is in the nature of an appeal from a decision of the board of appeals of Dennis. That decision had purported to grant to one Lane, the owner of a lot on Dexter Snow Avenue in a development known as "Riverview," a variance by reducing from twenty-five feet to seven feet the set-back line prescribed in the town building code, which was adopted by by-law...

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