True v. McAlpine

By reasonable, as that term is used in the court’s finding, is intended legal, for it is the general rule that a person may make any legal use of his land that he sees fit. Garland v. Towne, 55 N. H. 55, 58; Horan v. Byrnes, 72 N. H. 93; Moore v. Company, 74 N. H. 305.

There is no statute or specific rule of the common law which forbids a person using his land to store automobiles or to engage in that business, even when his land is located in a residential section.

If, therefore, it can be found that the use the defendants propose to make of their land is illegal, it is because it can be found…