LITTON BUSINESS SYS., INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE


383 Mass. 619 (1981)

420 N.E.2d 339

LITTON BUSINESS SYSTEMS, INC., & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence S. Fordham (David R. Pierson & Peter A. Fine with him) for the plaintiffs.

James A. Aloisi, Jr., Assistant Attorney General (Timothy S. Hillman with him) for Commissioner of Revenue.

John M. Lynch (Wayne E. Hartwell with him) for the Mayor of Fitchburg & others.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.


BRAUCHER, J.

This case began as the first test of taxation of property by a city pursuant to the "Classification Amendment" to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Part II, c. 1, § 1, art. 4 of the Massachusetts Constitution, as amended by art. 112 of the Articles of Amendment, approved November 7, 1978. See G.L.c. 40, § 56, as amended by St. 1980, c. 261, § 2. The Commissioner of Revenue (Commissioner) certified that the city of Fitchburg (city) was...

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