Coady v. Board of Assessors

This appeal from the refusal of the assessors to grant an exemption under G. L. c. 59, § 5, Forty-first, for the year 1966, closely resembles Coroa v. Assessors of Fall River, ante, 235. The appellant is a widow over seventy years of age on January 1, 1966, who for more than ten years has been domiciled in the property. From 1924 to his'jdeath in 1946 the appellant and her late husband had owned the locus as joint tenants. In 1947 she conveyed the property to herself and her two sons as joint tenants “for convenience in the event of her death.” On September 1, 1965, the appellant and her sons…