Lumb v. Zoning Board of Review of Town of Bristol

This petition for certiorari was brought to review the action of the respondent board in granting a permit for the erection of a building to be used in the manufacture of boats on a tract of land located in a residential zone. Pursuant to' the writ the pertinent records have been certified to this court.

It appears therefrom that Charles DeWolf Brownell is presently the owner of the land in question, which at one time comprised a portion of the property used 'by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, a firm that had long engaged in the building of vessels of various types and sizes. The land,…