Troy Cotton & Woolen Manufactory v. City of Fall River
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for the abatement of a tax assessed upon the petitioner’s property by the assessors of the respondent city for 1893. Trial in the Superior Court, upon appeal, without a jury, before Richardson, J., who, at the request of the parties, reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
This is a petition for the abatement of a tax assessed upon the petitioner by the assessors of the city of Fall River, for the year 1893. The petitioner is a Massachusetts corporation, doing business in Fall River, and seasonably filed with the assessors a list of its property liable to taxation, sworn to by its treasurer, and, after the assessment of the tax, it- applied to the assessors for an abatement, which was refused, and then it appealed to the Superior Court, pursuant to St. 1890, c. 127. That court appointed a commissioner, who heard the parties and made his report, whereupon the…
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