WEINSTOCK v. HULL


367 Mass. 66 (1975)

323 N.E.2d 867

BERNARD WEINSTOCK & others vs. TOWN OF HULL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Lichtenstein & Mark Lichtenstein, for the plaintiffs, submitted a brief.

Haskell A. Lampke, Town Counsel, for the town of Hull & others.

Robert H. Quinn, Attorney General, pro se, & Kenneth Behar, Assistant Attorney General, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, HENNESSEY, & WILKINS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The plaintiffs bring this bill for declaratory relief to challenge the constitutionality of that portion of G.L.c. 59, § 5, Twentieth, as amended through St. 1972, c. 144, § 1, which exempts a person's household furniture and effects from the local property tax, if that property is "used or commonly kept in or about the dwelling of which he is [the] owner of record or for the use of which he is obligated to pay rent, and which is the place...

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