Maxwell v. Klaess

Five owners of different parcels of real estate have brought separate proceedings against the respondent, as deputy superintendent of the department of public works of the Incorporated Village of Rockville Centre, Nassau County, *941New York, to compel the approval and issuance of a building permit to enable each petitioner to alter his present one-family dwelling for use as a two-family dwelling. The respondent, in his several amended answers, aside from denials, alleges (1) that petitioners have not obtained the consent and permit of the board of appeals for such alteration as was required on…