Page v. City of Melrose

This appeal from the refusal of the assessors of the city of Melrose to abate a tax was committed by the Superior Court to a commissioner to hear the parties and report the facts to that court. At the hearing before the commissioner the respondent requested him to report the evidence. The report contains a statement of the evidence, followed by a statement *362of the facts found by the commissioner, concluding with a finding that the petitioner is entitled to an abatement of $60 with interest from March 16,1903. The commissioner’s report shows that at the hearing before him the respondent took…