Costley v. Caromin House, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ruling that a group home was a single-family residence in conformance with restrictive covenant allowing construction of “[o]nly one dwelling and one garage” and local zoning ordinance permitting “one and two-family dwelling groups” (quotations omitted)
• “These 9 statutes specify that a licensed group home for six or fewer . . . persons shall be considered a single-family residential use for zoning purposes.”
• no limit on number of unrelated persons who may live together
• “We have followed the policy of encouraging all legitimate interventions. * * * Since [intervenors] have the necessary interest and are inadequately represented, the denial was not justified. Nor would intervention unduly delay or prejudice the rights of other parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).