Legal Opinion
Wellesley College v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 24, 1943PublishedCited by 192 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This is a petition in equity filed in the Probate Court of Norfolk County by Wellesley College, which was incorporated by St. 1870, c. 85, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining “an institution for the education of youth” and which, pursuant to the said statute and subsequent statutes in amendment thereof, has maintained an institution for the higher education of young women. The petitioner seeks instructions as to whether or not it is subject to the provisions of St. 1941, c. 729, § 17, inserted in G. L. (Ter. Ed.) as c. 64B, which by § 2 imposes a tax on meals amounting to $1 or…
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