Town of West Hartford v. Willetts

This is an action for a declaratory judgment, brought by the plaintiff town and its town clerk and building inspector. There is no finding of facts and the appeal must be determined upon the basis of the allegations in the pleadings, substantially all of which are admitted. On August 6, 1935, the town enacted an ordinance which, so far as pertinent to our inquiry, provided in substance that, in a business or industrial zone no building should be used for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises if it was within fifteen hundred feet of other premises used for a like…