Spear v. City of Bath

The real estate of the appellant in Bath was valued by the tax assessors of that city as of April 1st, 1924 at $175,000. A tax was assessed upon this valuation. The property taxed is a Government Housing Project established during the World War. It consists of some twenty-six acres of land with improvements, including sixty-five brick buildings, forty-five of them being double dwellings. The cost to the Government was about $900,000. The character of the buildings is perhaps indicated by Appellant’s Exhibit No. 3, a circular, frqm which we quote: “These homes were not built for sale. No…