WHITTEMORE, J.
The decree in the Superior Court upholding the grant of a variance was in error.
The evidence shows that the applying owner, the intervener, had purchased the property at 46 Gorham Street, Chelmsford, on a "main highway," as a site for an automobile service station, a use not permitted in this general residence district. For seventeen years the intervener had operated a service station at 15 Gorham Street on land being taken for State highway...
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