SECOND CHURCH IN DORCHESTER v. BOSTON


343 Mass. 477 (1962)

179 N.E.2d 598

SECOND CHURCH IN DORCHESTER vs. CITY OF BOSTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 23, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Kerr, for the defendant.

Richard B. Dellheim, for the plaintiff.

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


SPALDING, J.

On January first of each of the years 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957, the plaintiff, a Massachusetts religious corporation, was the owner of real estate at 6 Melville Avenue in the Dorchester district of the city of Boston. The real estate during these years was used as a parsonage for its house of worship. In each of these years the defendant's assessors included the parsonage in their annual valuation list at a valuation of $7,700 and assessed to the plaintiff...

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