WORCESTER v. HOFFMAN


345 Mass. 647 (1963)

189 N.E.2d 226

CITY OF WORCESTER vs. SALO HOFFMAN & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

April 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Coppola for the petitioner.

Lawrence A. Sullivan (Henry P. Monaghan with him) for the respondents.

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


WILKINS, C.J.

The city appeals from a decision of the Land Court dismissing its petition brought pursuant to G.L.c. 60, § 65, as amended, to foreclose all rights of redemption in a certain parcel of land in Worcester. The land had been taken by the city by an instrument dated August 12, 1955, and recorded October 6, 1955, "for unpaid 1954 taxes," which in fact were a lien for unpaid rates for water supplied to Wire Corporation, subsequently adjudicated a bankrupt...

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