DeNucci v. Pezza

If today’s municipal planner were to visit the town of Johnston and inspect the area adjacent to the intersection of Aumento and Diaz Streets, he would shake his head and wonder what went wrong. His view would disclose a series of “well-kept and well-maintained" dwellings interspersed among such industrial establishments as a slaughterhouse, a gravel bank, a cement-mixing plant, a chemical plant, an automobile junkyard and a motor freight terminal. The plaintiffs each own or reside in one of the well-kept homes. Joseph R. Pezza is the sole stockholder of a corporate interstate motor carrier…