Smith v. Board of Appeals of Needham

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Superior Court adjudicating that a decision of the board of appeals sustaining a denial of applications of the plaintiffs for permits to construct two family dwelling houses on lots of land owned by them in Needham was within the jurisdiction of the board and that no modification of the decision was required. The case was submitted to the Superior Court upon a statement of all the material facts amounting to a case stated.

It appears that the plaintiffs are the owners of a certain parcel of land in Needham which in July, 1957, they had subdivided as…