Legal Opinion
Town of Sudbury v. Scott
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 1, 2003PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
The town of Sudbury appeals from a judgment of the Land Court declaring that the town did not have a right of first refusal as to Charles F. Scott’s offer to purchase a seventy-acre parcel of land (locus) that was valued, assessed, and taxed as agricultural land under G. L. c. 61 A. The locus had been sold to Scott without prior notice to the town of the terms of Scott’s offer because Scott had agreed with the seller to continue the agricultural use of the locus and to notify the town accordingly. As a result of events in the two months that preceded and the five months that followed…
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