BETTIGOLE v. ASSESSORS OF SPRINGFIELD


343 Mass. 223 (1961)

178 N.E.2d 10

ALBERT W. BETTIGOLE & others vs. ASSESSORS OF SPRINGFIELD & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

November 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis H. Weinstein, (Laurence S. Fordham with him,) for the plaintiffs and petitioners.

S. Thomas Martinelli, City Solicitor, (John J. O'Connor, Associate City Solicitor, & Cosmo M. Ansara, Assistant City Solicitor, with him,) for the defendants and respondents.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

These two bills in equity present questions about the validity of the proposed 1961 assessment of property taxes in Springfield. They have been argued together.

The Bettigole case is brought by individual, fiduciary, and corporate owners of multi-family dwellings, commercial real estate, and other property in Springfield which it is alleged "will be in 1961 and subsequent years ... deliberately ... over-valued and over-assessed both in relation...

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