Lapenas v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Brockton

The issue on these appeals from two decrees of the Superior Court is the validity of the judge’s determination that the denials by the Brockton zoning board of appeals of variances to the plaintiffs should be annulled.

The plaintiffs 2 in the two suits are, respectively, owners of two parcels of land on the easterly side of North Quincy Street, a way which, according to Brockton city maps, is, where it abuts the plaintiffs’ parcels, entirely in Brockton. According to those maps, the Brockton-Abington boundary runs through the parcels of the plaintiffs so as to place in Brockton a narrow strip…