Legal Opinion
Old Colony Railroad v. Assessors of Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 27, 1940PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This is an appeal from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board dismissing a petition of the Old Colony Railroad Company for the abatement of a tax upon its property in Quincy for 1938.
There was evidence that an agent of the appellant went to the office of the assessors in Quincy at about thirty-five or forty minutes after three o'clock, standard time, on the afternoon of Friday, September 30, 1938, for the purpose of delivering a number of applications for abatement of the taxes assessed upon various parcels of real estate owned by the appellant; that the office was closed for the day, no…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Charles I. Hosmer, Inc. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Board of Assessors v. Suffolk Law SchoolMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Slocum v. Natural Products Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Gorski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Regan v. Atlantic Refining Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Crude Oil Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1947
- Old Colony Railroad v. Assessors of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- New Bedford Gas & Edison Light Co. v. Board of AssessorsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. CrosscupMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Costello v. Board of Appeals of LexingtonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1975
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