SHERIDAN v. PLANNING BOARD


159 Conn. 1 (1969)

JOHN M. SHERIDAN ET AL. v. PLANNING BOARD OF THE CITY OF STAMFORD ET AL. SYLVIA DOWLING ET AL. v. PLANNING BOARD OF THE CITY OF STAMFORD ET AL. RICHARD S. CREEDON ET AL. v. BOARD OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF STAMFORD ET AL. JOHN B. DOWLING ET AL. v. ZONING BOARD OF THE CITY OF STAMFORD ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided December 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius B. Kuriansky, for the appellants (plaintiffs in the fourth case) and for the appellants-appellees (plaintiffs in the first, second and third cases).

Melvin M. Dichter and Gordon R. Paterson, for the appellee (defendant Donahue in the fourth case) and for the appellees-appellants (defendant Donahue et al. in the first, second and third cases); with them also were Theodore Godlin., assistant corporation counsel, and, on the brief, Paul D. Shapero, corporation counsel, for the appellee (named defendant in the fourth case) and for the appellee-appellant (named defendant in the first, second and third cases).

KING, C. J., ALCORN, HOUSE, THIM and RYAN, JS.


THIM, J.

These four appeals were tried together in the Court of Common Pleas and arise from essentially one transaction. They all involve the same piece of property, and the factual basis of the four cases is sufficiently similar to permit their disposition in one opinion.

On July 13, 1965, Alphonsus J. Donahue, Jr., as trustee, entered into a contract to purchase a tract of land containing approximately 120 acres owned by C. Russell Feldmann and located in...

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