Legal Opinion
Town of Shapleigh v. Shikles
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided March 17, 1981PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.
The defendants, Jack G. Shikles and his wife, Irene, proceeded to build a guest house on 21st Street, in Shapleigh, pursuant to a permit issued on May 15, 1978, to their contractor-builder, Robert E. Weaver. Claiming that they were erecting a principal structure instead of an accessory building as contemplated by the permit, Daniel Greenwood, the Town’s Code Enforcement Officer, on August 4,1978, ordered all work on the site to stop, revoked the May 15 permit and informed the defendants that, unless they took corrective action by August 18,1978, they would be…
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