Morison v. Assessors of Brookline

This is an appeal from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board dismissing an appeal from the refusal of the assessors to grant an abatement of the tax for 1941 upon real estate in Brookline which the appellant owned on January 1, 1941. The tax was assessed to the appellant.

The appellant owned a large tract of land in Brookline which he conveyed on April 1, 1941, to one Rhodes, who assumed liability for the payment of the tax and was credited with the sum of $1,152.02 from the purchase price as an adjustment to cover the proportionate share of the tax for the period from January 1, 1941, to…