SYLVESTER v. ASSESSORS OF BRAINTREE


344 Mass. 263 (1962)

182 N.E.2d 120

HELEN SYLVESTER & others vs. ASSESSORS OF BRAINTREE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Mitchell, for the taxpayers.

Richard A. Hunt, Town Counsel, for the Assessors of Braintree.

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


WILKINS, C.J.

The taxpayers, three minors, appeal by their mother and next friend from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board upholding the denial by the appellee board of assessors of Braintree of their application for the further abatement of real estate taxes for 1959 and 1960. G.L.c. 58A, § 13, as amended.

The issue is whether under G.L.c. 59, § 5, Seventeenth (as amended through St. 1954, c. 351), the exemption on real estate owned by the taxpayers...

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