Marmah, Inc. v. Town of Greenwich

This case concerns the efforts of the plaintiff, Marmah, Ine., to construct a post office in Old Greenwich. Marmah presented a site plan to the defendant town’s planning and zoning commission which the commission disapproved after a public meeting on December 19, 1972. Marmah timely appealed to the Court of Common Pleas which concluded that the site plan application had been arbitrarily denied. The town thereupon petitioned for certification by this court, and upon the grant of that petition, perfected its appeal, urging reversal of the trial court and dismissal of Marmah’s appeal.

The theory…