Kutcher v. Town Planning Commission

The defendant Patten owns a small machine shop in. Manchester. Urged to expand his operations, which are largely experimental work for the aircraft industry, he' purchásed a parcel of land on Wetherell Street in the southwestern part of the town and proposed to erect thereon a small shop where thirty persons could be employed. The land is located in what is described by the town zoning ordinance as a rural residence zone. The neighborhood is not thickly populated. Just north of the Patten parcel a brook runs through low, swampy ground. Within a radius of 1000 feet to the north there is an…