Cefalo v. Board of Appeal of Boston

This is a bill in equity filed in the Superior Court by way of “appeal” under the zoning law of Boston, St. 1924, c. 488, § 19, as appearing in St. 1941, c. 373, § 18, from a decision of the board of appeal denying to the plaintiff a variance which would have permitted a “mortician’s home” in a single residence district.

The board found that the plaintiff “did not advance sufficient reasons to cause the Board to come to the conclusion that this was a specific case where a literal enforcement of the Act involved a substantial hardship upon the appellant, nor where desirable relief might be…