The Court affirmed the refusal to issue a permit for converting the plaintiffs’ small lot into a two-family dwelling. It held that the statutory small-lot provision permits qualifying lots to be used as a basic unit in the zoning district but does not exempt them from per-dwelling-unit area requirements or confer…
Supreme Court of Vermont, 1986
Published opinions from 1986. The case name opens the case page.
1986 opinions
VermontWilliam Langle, Jr. v. Walter Kurkul, Sr., William Kurkul, Walter Kurkul, Jr. and Gary Kurkul
January 24, 1986146 Vt. 513
The Court affirmed dismissal of the plaintiff’s complaint because an intoxicated person injured by his own consumption of alcohol has no cause of action under Vermont’s Dram Shop Act, and the Court declined to recognize a common-law negligence duty owed by a social host to an intoxicated adult guest injured in a…