Building Inspector of Attleboro v. Attleboro Landfill

The building inspector for the city sought equitable relief and an injunction to bar the defendant from operating a sanitary landfill business on Beckham Street in Attleboro. A judge of the Superior Court entered a judgment which permanently enjoined the defendant from operating its landfill business in contravention of the zoning ordinance of the city. The defendant appealed, and the case was transferred to this court on our own motion. The defendant contends that the permit must be taken to have been granted as a matter of law, since the planning board failed to take final action within the…