Hebb v. Lamport

This is a bill in equity (originally filed in a Probate Court but subsequently removed to the Superior Court) brought in 1974 by a resident and registered voter of the town of Stoughton (who is also a landowner therein), to challenge, and to secure a previously requested reversal of, a long standing construction by the town’s building inspector of so much of § VI (“DIMENSIONAL AND DENSITY REGULATIONS”), B (“Table of Dimensional and Density Regulations”), of the zoning by-law of the town (as adopted in 1970 and in effect until 1974) as set out the minimum lot area requirement applicable to…