CHELMSFORD TRAILER PARK, INC. v. CHELMSFORD


393 Mass. 186 (1984)

469 N.E.2d 1259

CHELMSFORD TRAILER PARK, INC. vs. TOWN OF CHELMSFORD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 25, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Sessa for Chelmsford Mobile Home Park Tenants Association, Inc. (James M. Harrington for the town of Chelmsford & others, with him).

Vincent R. Brogna (Edward H. London with him) for the plaintiff.

Richard C. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General, joined in a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

The plaintiff, the owner of a mobile home park, challenges the validity of St. 1983, c. 449 (the act), an act enabling the town of Chelmsford to adopt a by-law to control rents and evictions in mobile home parks, and the validity of the by-law adopted by the town pursuant to the act.

The owner's complaint sought a declaratory judgment that the act and the by-law were invalid and unconstitutional, as well as preliminary and permanent injunctions against...

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