GREEN ACRE BAHA'I INSTITUTE v. TOWN OF ELIOT


193 A.2d 564 (1963)

GREEN ACRE BAHA'I INSTITUTE v. TOWN OF ELIOT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

September 4, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Smith, Saco, for plaintiff.

Thomas M. Dudley, Jr., Portsmouth, N. H., for defendant.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, TAPLEY, SULLIVAN, SIDDALL and MARDEN, JJ.


WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

This appeal to the Superior Court from the denial of a tax abatement for 1961 on property in the Town of Eliot is before us on report. R.S. c. 91-A, §§ 51, 52.

The petitioner, a Maine Corporation, is a benevolent and charitable institution within the meaning of the exemption provisions of the taxing statute. There has been no change in the corporate status or in the use of its property, apart from two parcels, since our...

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