Commonwealth v. Dillon

The defendant in this action was complained *197of in the District Court, the complaint, in substance, being that on the twenty-eighth day of July, 1930, at Pittsfield in the county of Berkshire, he erected or placed “a wooden building at a less distance than ten feet from the front or street boundary fine, in violation of Section 1 and Section 14 and amendments to Section 1, of the Building Zone Ordinance.” Upon appeal from the decision of the District Court the complaint- came before the Superior Court, where the defendant waived his right for trial by jury.

The case was submitted to the court…