SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS INC. v. NEWTON


344 Mass. 428 (1962)

183 N.E.2d 118

SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS INC. vs. CITY OF NEWTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton W. Spencer (Frank G. Allen, Jr. & Henry W. Keyes with him) for the respondent landowners.

Roger Allan Moore (W. Lincoln Boyden with him) for the petitioner.

Matt B. Jones, City Solicitor, for the City of Newton, concurred in the brief submitted in behalf of the petitioner.

Present: WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This appeal under G.L.c. 231, § 96, and c. 185, § 15, by landowners in Newton, challenges the decision of the Land Court which held valid an amendment to the Newton zoning ordinance enacted on June 27, 1960. The amendment changed from a single residence A district to a limited manufacturing district the classification of 153.6 acres of land now of the petitioner (Sylvania) situated on the southerly...

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