# Brockton Public Market, Inc. v. Board of Appeals

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · June 11, 1970 · 357 Mass. 783

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6448511

## Case

- **Full name:** Brockton Public Market, Inc. v. Board of Appeals of Sharon
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** June 11, 1970
- **Citations:** 357 Mass. 783; 260 N.E.2d 222
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 5 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Superior Court that the board of appeals of the town of Sharon did not exceed its authority in denying a special permit for the construction of “a gasoline filling station within a parking lot of a shopping center in a Business District zone.” “The evidence . . . consisted of five exhibits, one of which is a Stipulation.” The parties also orally agreed on an additional fact. The trial judge’s ruling that the plaintiff does not have “an absolute right to a special permit” is correct. Gulf Oil Corp. v. Board of Appeals of Framingham 355 Mass. 275, 277 . Likewise, there was no error in holding that the refusal to grant a special permit did not require detailed findings by the board of appeals. Ferrante v. Board of Appeals of Northampton, 345 Mass. 158, 162 .
Decree affirmed.

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