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ANSARA v. CITY OF NASHUA

No. 78-121.

118 N.H. 879 (1978)

JAMILA ANSARA v. CITY OF NASHUA & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

December 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

New Hampshire Legal Assistance, Ms. Marilyn Mahoney, law student, Franklin Pierce Law Center, by brief (Jeffrey A. Schapira orally), for the plaintiff.

H. Philip Howorth, of Nashua, corporation counsel, by brief and orally, for the defendant.

Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, of Manchester (Stephen E. Weyl orally), for amicus curiae, town of Hudson.

BOIS, J.

[1] This reserved case requires us to consider the defendant city's exceptions to the Trial Court's (Cann, J.) findings of fact, rulings of law, and decree granting total abatement of the plaintiff's 1976 property taxes. The plaintiff homeowner alleges that she was entitled to an abatement because of poverty and inability to pay. We reaffirm the continued vitality of Briggs' Petition, 29 N.H. 547 (1854), in which we held that "poverty and inability...

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