LAWRENCE v. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS


158 Conn. 509 (1969)

JAMES LAWRENCE v. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF THE TOWN OF NORTH BRANFORD

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided November 25, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Sherwood, with whom was Joseph B. Lukas, for the appellant (defendant). Pasquale Young, for the appellee (plaintiff).

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


THIM, J.

The plaintiff, James Lawrence, purchased a plot of approximately one-and-one-half acres on Church Street in the center of North Branford in April, 1966. He resides in a house on the property with his wife and five children and had kept twenty-six chickens and two goats, which he used to feed his family. On September 8, 1966, the zoning enforcement officer for the town ordered Lawrence to cease maintaining the goats and chickens, and the defendant, the zoning...

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