INHABITANTS OF TOWN OF BOOTHBAY, ETC. v. RUSSELL


410 A.2d 554 (1980)

INHABITANTS OF the TOWN OF BOOTHBAY HARBOR v. Joseph M. RUSSELL, Jr. Joseph M. RUSSELL, Jr. v. Elbridge GILES et al. Joseph M. RUSSELL, Jr. v. Clive FARRIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

January 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perkins & Perkins by James Blenn Perkins, Jr., Boothbay Harbor (orally), for plaintiff.

Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson by Geoffrey H. Hole (orally), F. Paul Frinsko, Portland, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, GODFREY, NICHOLS and GLASSMAN, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

These three actions, heard together in the Superior Court (Lincoln County) and on this appeal, concern a "picnic deck" that appellant Russell (hereafter "landowner") caused to be built on his shorefront property in Boothbay Harbor. On June 23, 1977, the landowner's contractor applied to Mr. Farrin, the town's building inspector, for a permit to build the deck within 75 feet of the shore. The following...

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