Legal Opinion
City of Boston v. Ditson
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 28, 1976PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHale, C.J.
This is an appeal by the respondent from a decree of the Land Court upon the city’s petition to foreclose a tax title to a parcel of land in Boston (the locus). The locus was taken by the city for nonpayment of the 1969 real estate taxes assessed thereon, together with sewer and water charges and interest, under G. L. c. 60, § 54, by an instrument of taking recorded on May 7, 1970. The petition to foreclose was brought on May 10, 1972. Five days later the respondent paid all but $1 of the 1969 bill.
At the time of the respondent’s payment, the real estate tax assessed on the locus for 1970 had…
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