BUILDING INSPECTOR OF MANSFIELD v. CURVIN


22 Mass. App. Ct. 401 (1986)

494 N.E.2d 42

BUILDING INSPECTOR OF MANSFIELD vs. CHRISTOPHER CURVIN.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

June 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Dwyer, Town Counsel, for the plaintiff.

Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., for Department of Food and Agriculture, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GREANEY, C.J., CUTTER, & WARNER, JJ.


WARNER, J.

The sole issue in this case is whether a section of the zoning by-law of the town of Mansfield prohibiting the maintenance of a piggery conflicts with The Zoning Act (Act), G.L.c. 40A, § 3.

The case was presented to a Superior Court judge on a statement of agreed facts, from which we outline the background relevant to this appeal. The defendant owns about seventeen acres of land, all in an agricultural zone, in Mansfield; he purchased the property...

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