Corrigan v. Board of Appeals

The inspector of buildings and zoning agent for the town of Brewster denied the plaintiffs’ application for a building permit for their single residence lot. The plaintiffs’ lot was originally part of a large tract of land in Brewster and Orleans owned by the parents of plaintiff James T. Cor-rigan (the parents will be referred to herein as the Corri-gans). In 1969 the Corrigans had submitted a plan to the Brewster planning board which showed a division of a por*515tion of the tract into lots 1 and 2, both of which were in Brewster. Lot 1 is the plaintiffs’ lot.

The 1969 plan was endorsed by the…