Legal Opinion
Staman v. Board of Assessors
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 12, 1966PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
The trustees of the will of Avis A. M. Chase (the testatrix), late of Philadelphia, filed petitions with the Appellate Tax Board because aggrieved by the refusal of the Chatham assessors to treat the trust real estate in that town as exempt from taxation. The board’s decisions were in favor of the assessors. From those decisions, the trustees appealed. The cases were heard by the board on the pleadings and a statement of agreed facts.
The testatrix’s will, theretofore allowed in Pennsylvania, also was allowed in Massachusetts in 1954, as a foreign will, by the Barnstable Probate Court. The…
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