Burgess v. City of Concord

Petition for declaratory judgment heard by a Master (Robert A. Carignan, Esq.). Brock, J., approved the master’s recommendation and entered a decree in accordance therewith. The defendant city objected and excepted to the findings, recommendations, and decree of the master as being against the evidence and contrary to law. All questions of law raised by the foregoing exceptions or any exceptions appearing in the transcript or appendix were reserved and transferred by Johnson, J.

The plaintiffs have owned a home on Pleasant Street in Concord since 1954. On January 4, 1944, by ordinance (amended…