Geenty v. Board of Zoning Appeals

The plaintiff, through an appeal from the board of zoning appeals of the City of New Haven, presents the question whether the board acted within the well-known principles governing such an administrative board in denying the plaintiff’s application.

The application involved the use of a barn with dimensions of 35 by 60 that had been recently purchased by the plaintiff, after inquiry by him of a clerk in the office of the building department elicited the answer that the property could be used for a commercial use.

In fact it had been so used, but not until after the adoption of the zoning…