ASSESSORS OF BOSTON v. JAKES


341 Mass. 136 (1960)

167 N.E.2d 621

ASSESSORS OF BOSTON vs. JOHN H. JAKES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Kerr, for the assessors of Boston.

James B. Marcus, (Alan S. Barkin with him,) for the taxpayer.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, COUNIHAN, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

This is an appeal by the assessors of the city of Boston from the decision of the Appellate Tax Board granting to John H. Jakes, a disabled veteran, an abatement of the 1957 real estate tax on property at 41 Lawrence Avenue, Roxbury. A statement of agreed facts before the board filed November 10, 1959, shows that Jakes purchased the property on January 23, 1956, and had lived there since; on August 23, 1956, because the first mortgage was in arrears...

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