Cullen v. Building Inspector of North Attleborough

How courts have described this case

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

• interpreting the time limitation of the prior zoning act as “directory”
• mere increase in amount of business done is not in itself proof of unlawful change
• both holding that the time of performance by a public body does not go to the “essence of the thing to be done”
• statutory command that the decision of a board of appeals “shall be made within ninety days after the date of the filing of an appeal” construed as directory
• structures offensive to zoning by-law ordered dismantled despite economic waste argument
• interpreting predecessor to G. L. c. 40A, § 15

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).