Ellen M. Gifford Sheltering Home Corp. v. Board of Appeals

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a final decree of the Superior Court upholding the decision of the defendant board of appeals which sustained the building inspector’s refusal to grant a building permit. We have previously considered an earlier application of the plaintiff for a permit. (See footnote 4.) We now consider a further chapter in the plaintiff’s effort to establish in the town of Wayland a sheltering home for cats.

According to the statement of agreed facts the plaintiff, a charitable corporation, purchased in November, 1960, property at 302A Concord Road, Wayland (designated…