Legal Opinion
Shawmut Manufacturing Co. v. Town of Benton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 30, 1923PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
An appeal under R. S., Chap. 10, Secs. 79 and 80, first, to the commissioners of Kennebec county, and from the adverse decision of that board to this court at nisi prius, from the denial by local assessors of a petition for an abatement of taxes assessed in 1920. The Justice below reserved the case, both of fact and law, for final judgment by the Law Court.
*123The issue was broadened, by mutual consent of the parties, beyond the allegations of the petition and. the reasons of the appeals, to include the enquiry of whether all the assessed property was within the territorial limits of the town of…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Alfred J. Sweet, Inc. v. City of AuburnSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1935
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- Frank v. Assessors of SkowheganSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
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