Collector of Taxes v. City of Boston

The collector of taxes of the town of Milton seeks in this action of contract to recover taxes assessed to the defendant on real estate owned by it in that town. The case was submitted on a case stated and was reported for determination by this court by the trial judge without decision. The relevant facts are these: prior to September 1, 1926, the Old Colony Railroad Company was the owner of an easement for railroad purposes over certain land in Milton, on which were tracks, depots and other railroad structures, used by its lessee and known as the Shawmut Branch, the tracks thereof in Milton…