Sullivan v. Anglo-American Investment Trust, Inc.

The defendant does not claim that the ordinance under consideration is not a lawful exercise of the power delegated to municipalities by the zoning act, but contends that the use which its lessee proposes to make of the property is in no respect subversive of any of those purposes (the promotion of health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community) which all valid zoning regulations must be designed to secure. P. L., c. 42, s. 48. Indeed, defendant’s counsel go so far as to suggest that an injunction restrain ing the proposed use can “only be based upon the premise that the…