Blackstone Manufacturing Co. v. Inhabitants of Blackstone
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Worcester, October 1,1906, for an abatement of a tax assessed to the petitioner by the respondent for 1905. The case was referred to an auditor. His findings of fact are stated in substance in the opinion. Annexed to his report was the following plan.
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Worcester, October 1,1906, for an abatement of a tax assessed to the petitioner by the respondent for 1905. The case was referred to an auditor. His findings of fact are stated in substance in the opinion. Annexed to his report was the following plan. The following is in substance the auditor’s statement of the contentions of the parties and of his rulings: “ The respondent contends and I rule in accordance with such contention that the dam, the canals, the pond and so much of the trench as lies in Massachusetts, together with the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The petitioner is a manufacturing corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island more than sixty-five years ago. Previous to August, 1904, its mills were situated in the town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, where it owned more than two hundred and fifty acres of land, which included village lots, so called, to the amount of more than sixty acres, together with a dam, canals, pond, trench and fall which constituted a valuable water privilege upon the Blackstone River that furnished power for the mills. There were dwelling houses and other buildings upon this land, about which…
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