Town of Waterford v. Grabner

For a number of years, the defendants have been engaged in the business of selling and processing sand and gravel from property owned by them in Waterford. The plaintiff town and George T. Phillips, the town’s building inspector, brought this action seeking to enjoin the operations of the defendants until they complied with a provision of the Waterford zoning ordinance regulating the operation of sand and gravel pits. To this complaint the defendants pleaded, inter alia, that they were making a valid nonconforming use of their property and that the regulation in issue was unreasonable,…