Goelet v. ZONING BD. OF NEWPORT

This is a petition for certiorari to review the action of the board of review of the city of Newport in granting the application of Ralph E. Gunning and Catherine F. Gunning, his wife, for an exception from the zoning ordinance. We issued the writ and in compliance therewith the board have returned all the records of their proceedings pertaining to such application for our inspection.

The applicants are the owners of a certain lot of land situated on Bellevue avenue and designated as lot No. 17 on tax assessor’s plat No. 37. It is in an R 40 residential district where only one and two-family…