Legal Opinion
Town of Waterboro v. Lessard
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 11, 1972PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHIBALD, Justice.
On appeal.
These two cases were consolidated, tried, and argued together in the Superior Court resulting in judgments adverse to the plaintiff in Docket #1744A and to the defendant in Docket #1760, 1 from which appeals were taken. The Superior Court had ruled that the Town’s ordinance, as it related to side yard controls, was invalid.
In 1958 the Town adopted an ordinance containing this provision:
“Section 5 — Boundary Lines(a) A building or other structure shall not be constructed, reconstructed, or placed within twenty feet of a boundary line.”
Mr. and Mrs. Lessard…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Enos v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
- City of Miami Beach v. State Ex Rel. Fontainebleau Hotel Corp.District Court of Appeal of Florida · 1959
- City of Stuttgart v. StraitSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1947
- Forest City, Inc. v. PaysonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1968
- State v. BrownSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1936
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Town of Windham v. LaPointeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1973
- Council of Chevy Chase View v. RothmanCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1991
- Clardy v. Town of LivermoreSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979