Wheaton College v. Inhabitants of Norton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court on June 7,1915, under St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 77, by Wheaton College, incorporated as a literary institution within the meaning of St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 5, cl. 3, to abate certain taxes assessed upon its real estate by the town of Norton' in the year 1914. The case was referred to a commissioner appointed under § 79 of the same statute, who filed a report.
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court on June 7,1915, under St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 77, by Wheaton College, incorporated as a literary institution within the meaning of St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 5, cl. 3, to abate certain taxes assessed upon its real estate by the town of Norton' in the year 1914. The case was referred to a commissioner appointed under § 79 of the same statute, who filed a report. The parties filed a stipulation containing additional facts and agreeing that they should constitute “a statement of agreed facts, in addition to the commissioner’s report, and that the court…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
On appeal to the Superior Court under St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 77, from a refusal of the assessors of the respond*144ent town to abate taxes upon certain real estate of the petitioner, the presiding judge appointed a commissioner to hear the parties and report the facts. Upon the coming in of the report, which is prima jade evidence of the facts therein found, St. 1909, c. 490, Part I, § 79, the case was heard by a judge of the Superior Court upon an agreement that the commissioner’s report and “agreed modifications” thereof should constitute an agreed statement of facts, and that the court…
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