Philco Corp. v. Town of East Hartford

In this appeal from the action of the board of tax review of the defendant town, the plaintiff, armed with the due process of law provision of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, has launched a constitutional attack on § 12-59 of the General Statutes with relation to the defendant’s assessment under that statute. The defendant assessed the property of the plaintiff —an electrical computer system — in the amount of $982,580. The plaintiff seeks to strike the listing of this property from the defendant town’s grand list.

This appeal comes on an agreed statement of…