In re Peck

In this application the petitioners are attacking the validity of ordinances adopted by the town board of the town of Brighton relating to the erection of gasoline stations. The petitioners claim that the town board, in adopting these ordinances, acted unreasonably, arbitrarily and unlawfully in that they were adopted, not for the general good, but to accomplish some purpose foreign to the interests of the town, constituting improper motives and bad faith on the part of the town. Such action, if it should be established, would constitute a perversion of the functions of the board, and be…