Davidson v. Board of Selectmen of Duxbury

By petition for writ of certiorari Davidson geeks to require the selectmen, the town’s licensing au thority, to issue a license to Davidson for the storage and sale of gasoline and other products at 28 Depot Street, South Duxbury (the locus). Davidson applied for this license (G. L. c. 148, § 13, as amended through St. 1959, c. 353, § 1) after the town’s board of appeals granted him a special permit to construct the station. On December 19, 1968, the selectmen, after a public hearing, denied the application, because “no public necessity existed which would take precedence over the fact that…