ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING CO. INC. v. READING


354 Mass. 181 (1968)

236 N.E.2d 188

ADDISON-WESLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. vs. TOWN OF READING & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Avram G. Hammer (Gregory H. Arabian with him) for the interveners.

John R. Hally (Robert L. Dancy with him) for the petitioner.

James W. Killam, III, Town Counsel, for the Town of Reading.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.


REARDON, J.

This petition was brought in the Land Court under G.L.c. 240, § 14A, and G.L.c. 185, § 1 (j 1/2), to determine the validity of a 1965 amendment to the zoning by-law of the town of Reading. The findings of the judge are summarized.

The petitioner is a Massachusetts corporation engaged in the publication of textbooks, and owning land in a Business C district, the only district so classified under the town's zoning by-law. The interveners...

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