Legal Opinion
Silverman v. Town of Alton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 13, 1982PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.
The issue in this case is whether certain real estate owned by the plaintiff-appellants as trustees of the Hirundo Wildlife Trust is exempt from taxation under 36 M.R.S.A. § 652. After a jury-waived trial in which the plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment against the Town of Alton and the three individual defendants in their capacities as members of that town’s Board of Tax Assessors, and against the town for reimbursement of the amount paid under protest in connection with the assessment of the 1978 tax on the trust property, the Superior Court, Penobscot…
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