MEADOWBROOKE DAY CARE CENTER, INC. v. BD. OF ASSESSORS


374 Mass. 509 (1978)

373 N.E.2d 212

MEADOWBROOKE DAY CARE CENTER, INC. vs. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF LOWELL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 24, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Laursen for the taxpayer.

Thomas E. Sweeney, Assistant City Solicitor, for the Board of Assessors of Lowell.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, & ABRAMS, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

Meadowbrooke Day Care Center, Inc. (Meadowbrooke), appeals to this court from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) affirming the denial by the assessors of Lowell of an application for abatement of tax for the first half of 1974 on real property owned and occupied by Meadowbrooke. Meadowbrooke's contention, which failed, was that the property was exempt from the tax under G.L.c. 59, § 5, Third, as property of a "literary, benevolent, charitable...

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