Hattem v. Silver

On this application to review the decision of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Long-Beach, respondents move to dismiss the petition on the ground that no facts are alleged showing that petitioners are aggrieved parties. (See General City Law, § 82.)

The law is well settled that to he a “ person aggrieved ” one must be specially, personally and adversely affected as distinguished from one who is merely in the general class of a taxpayer whose only interest is to have strict enforcement of zoning regulations for the welfare of the entire community. There must be special injury or…