TOWN OF SHAPLEIGH v. SHIKLES


427 A.2d 460 (1981)

TOWN OF SHAPLEIGH v. John G. SHIKLES et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided March 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calkins & Wuesthoff, Robert B. Calkins, Portland, Hugh Calkins, Dover-Foxcroft (orally), for plaintiff.

Cabanne Howard (orally), Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, for Amicus Curiae.

Bourque, Brodrick & Scaccia, by Ronald D. Bourque, Sanford (orally), for defendants.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., WERNICK, NICHOLS, GLASSMAN, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A. R. J.,


DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

The defendants, Jack G. Shikles and his wife, Irene, proceeded to build a guest house on 21st Street, in Shapleigh, pursuant to a permit issued on May 15, 1978, to their contractor-builder, Robert E. Weaver. Claiming that they were erecting a principal structure instead of an accessory building as contemplated by the permit, Daniel Greenwood, the Town's Code Enforcement Officer, on August 4, 1978, ordered all work on the site to stop...

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