VILLAGE BUILDERS, INC. v. TOWN PLAN & ZONING COMMISSION


145 Conn. 218 (1958)

VILLAGE BUILDERS, INC. [METROPOLITAN HOMES, INC., SUBSTITUTED PLAINTIFF] v. THE TOWN PLAN AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE TOWN OF FARMINGTON

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided April 3, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Sullivan, with whom was Paul W. Orth, for the appellant (defendant).

Irving S. Ribicoff, with whom, on the brief, was Louise H. Hunt, for the appellee (plaintiff).

WYNNE, C. J., BALDWIN, DALY, KING and MURPHY, Js.


MURPHY, J.

On September 13, 1954, the plaintiff was the owner of a fifty-acre tract of land in the Unionville section of the town of Farmington. The tract was located in an R 20 zone, in which the minimum lot requirements were approximately one-half an acre. Following a public hearing on that date, the defendant commission placed all but twelve acres of this property in an R 40 zone requiring approximately one-acre lots. On appeal to the Court of Common Pleas, the...

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