Board of Selectmen v. Granfield

The selectmen brought this action to terminate the defendants’ use of certain premises as a boarding house. The complaint consisted of three counts. The first sought a determination that boarding houses are not a permitted use under the Tewksbury zoning by-law and an injunction prohibiting the defendants from using the premises as such. The second sought the same injunctive relief based on a contention that the defendants’ operation of a boarding house without a license was unlawful. The third sought an order in the nature of mandamus to compel the town’s building commissioner (who in his…