Phinney v. Board of Revision of Taxes & Appeals

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In September 1942 Willis W. Phinney bought the land, in the City of Franklin, involved in this appeal. He paid $10,000 for the property and took title in his name and that of his wife. The premises consist in two adjoining parcels of land in the heart of the most desirable residential section of Franklin. The property as a whole extends 300 feet along Fifteenth Street with a frontage also of 112 feet on Liberty Street and 75 feet on Elk Street. There were two large buildings on the land; a three-story brick dwelling facing Liberty Street and a brick barn on the Elk Street…