Newport Illuminating Co. v. Assessors of Taxes

These are petitions which were filed under the provisions of Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 43, §§ 15, 16, 17, to obtain relief from the assessment of taxes imposed upon the petitioner’s real estate in 1894 and 1895, by the tax assessors of Newport.

The assessments which are in part complained of are in the words and figures following, to wit:

1894.

1895.

The evidence shows that the petitioner brought in to the tax assessors, in both of said years, the ‘ ‘ account of its ratable estate” prescribed by Pub. Stat. R. I. cap. 43, §§ 6, 7. The valuation of the estate on “Thames street, lot 76, plat 32,” which…