Montgomery v. Virgadamo

This is a petition which was brought under general laws 1938, chapter 31, §14, by certain trustees to recover the amount of a tax heretofore paid by them under protest on the ground that such tax was illegally and unconstitutionally assessed against them. The petition was heard before a justice of the superior court sitting without a jury and he rendered a decision for the petitioners for $720, the full amount of the tax paid, with interest from August 24, 1948, the date of payment, amounting in all to $758.04, together with costs. To such decision the respondents duly excepted and the case…