MARY C. WHEELER SCH. v. BD. OF ASSESSORS OF SEEKONK


368 Mass. 344 (1975)

331 N.E.2d 888

MARY C. WHEELER SCHOOL, INC. vs. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF SEEKONK.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan E. Cole of Rhode Island (Kinnaird Howland with him) for the taxpayer.

Max Volterra for the Board of Assessors of Seekonk.

Present: TAURO, C.J., BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

Mary C. Wheeler School, Inc. (School), is organized under Rhode Island law as a "non-business corporation." It runs a day and boarding school for children from nursery school through secondary school age. The School's main campus is in Providence, Rhode Island, but it also owns a 122-acre tract of open and wooded land in Seekonk, Massachusetts, a few miles away, which it uses primarily for recreation and sports and as an "open classroom" for science and...

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