De Mull v. City of Lowell

Appeal and cross-appeal from a decree entered in the Kent circuit upholding plaintiff’s nonconforming use of his property as against the defendant city’s zoning ordinance and upholding as against plaintiff that part of the ordinance which, by specific time limitation, will terminate such nonconforming use July 28, 1963. *

As in most like collisions of the municipal power of zoning with private rights of use of property, the-, issues are fact-complicated and subject to disputatious inferences and conclusions depending on professional as well as lay point of view. All such issues were considered…