Lowry v. Faraone

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This is a Superior Court class action that seeks to have declared as invalid and illegal the 1975 real estate taxes assessed by the town of Richmond. The challenge was heard by a Superior Court justice who, after consideration of memoranda, found for the defendants, the town’s tax assessor, its board of tax-assessment review, and town council. The plaintiffs asked that the 1975 assessment be voided and that their real estate taxes be based upon the 1974 assessment. Since none of the plaintiffs had filed an account of their taxable property as called for in G.L. 1956…