Hollis v. City of Lynn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three petitions, filed in the Superior Court on April 7, 1919, appealing under the provisions of St. 1919, c. 490, Part I, § 77, from a refusal of the assessors of the city of Lynn to abate taxes assessed upon the land of the petitioners for the year 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The petitioners are taxpayers in the defendant city, and having applied to the assessors for an abatement of taxes levied in 1918 on their respective lands, which was refused, they appealed under St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 77, to the Superior Court where under § 79, the cases were referred to a commissioner “to hear the parties and report the facts, together with such portions of the evidence as either party may request.” Upon the coming in of the report, a trial was had to the court sitting without a jury, and, the petitioners having prevailed, the cases are here on the respondent’s…
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