Brush v. City of New Bedford

This is an appeal under G. L. c. 59, § 65, from the refusal of the assessors of the city to abate a tax on two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight bales of cotton alleged to have been taxable to the complainants on April 1, 1920. The trial judge having found and ordered judgment for the respondent, the case is before" us on the complainants’ exceptions to the refusal to give the first, second, fifth, ninth and tenth requests, and to all the findings and rulings imconsistent therewith.

St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 23, as amended by St. 1918, c. 129, under which the assessment was levied,…