Case Name: Samuel Walton, Respondent, v. Incorporated Town of Smithtown et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1974-02-19
Citations: 43 A.D.2d 980
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Walton, Respondent, v. Incorporated Town of Smithtown et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 980–980

Head Matter:
Samuel Walton, Respondent, v. Incorporated Town of Smithtown et al., Appellants.

Opinion:
In an action for a declaratory judgment, defendants appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, entered April 4, 1973 after a nonjury trial, which declared a zoning ordinance unconstitutional in its application to the subject portion of plaintiff's property. Judgment reversed, on the law and the facts, with costs, and judgment directed to be entered declaring the ordinance constitutional as applied to the property in question. In our opinion, plaintiff' failed to meet his burden of proving that application of the ordinance to the subject premises is arbitrary and unreasonable (Williams v. Town of Oyster Bay, 32 N Y 2d 78). Gulotta, P. J., Latham, Shapiro, Christ and Brennan, JJ., concur.