Dunham v. Westerly Zoning Board

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the action of the zoning board of the town of Westerly in granting, under a special exception to the zoning ordinance, a permit for the location and operation of a “public utility plant” on land which was in a residential district. The applicants for the permit before the zoning board were W. Russell Dower, owner of the' land, and The Narragansett Electric Company, a public utility corporation of Rhode Island, which held an option to purchase this land. The petitioners here are certain taxpayers and owners of land variously situated in the…