Assessors of Worcester v. Knights of Columbus Religious Educational Charitable & Benevolent Ass'n

This is an appeal by the assessors of the city of Worcester from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board granting a partial abatement in the amount of $512.50 of a tax of $5,125 assessed on the real estate of the taxpayer in Worcester for the year 1949. The findings of fact by the board so far as material to the issues raised by the appeal are as follows. The taxpayer was incorporated in 1914 for the purposes “of teaching and fostering the Religion of Christ as may be had in devotional work, in special courses of instruction in divine things, and in encouragement and leadership in all that…