Bjornlund v. Zoning Board of Appeals

The town’s zoning board of appeals on November 2, 1966, filed with the town clerk its decision granting a permit. The plaintiffs brought this bill in equity to review the board’s decision. G. L. c. 40A, § 21 (as amended through St. 1960, c. 365). The bill was dismissed because of the plaintiffs’ failure to comply with the requirement of § 21 that notice of filing the bill “with a copy of the bill ... be given to . . . [the] town clerk so as to be received within . . . twenty days” after the board’s decision had been filed in the town clerk’s office. The trial judge, on the basis of…