Broderick v. Board of Appeal of Boston

The plaintiffs appeal from a final decree dismissing their bills seeking annulment under St. 1956, c. 665, § 11, 1 of two decisions of the Boston board of appeal (board) granting certain variances from the city’s zoning code to the Faulkner Hospital Corporation (the Faulkner) for the construction of a new hospital and a parking garage on a large parcel of land in a residential district in which the plaintiffs reside. After a hearing on the merits, the bills were dismissed for failure to file a bond in the amount of $100,000 as ordered by the trial judge.

A summary of the prior proceedings is…