FINANCE COMMISSION OF BOSTON v. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE


383 Mass. 63 (1981)

417 N.E.2d 945

FINANCE COMMISSION OF BOSTON vs. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Merrill for the plaintiff.

Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of Revenue.

Douglas G. Moxham (Jeffrey B. Rudman with him) for The Prudential Insurance Company of America, intervener.

Marcia Drake Seeler, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for Commissioner of the Assessing Department of the city of Boston, submitted a brief.

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


LIACOS, J.

The Finance Commission of Boston (commission) appeals from the judgment of the Superior Court, entered January 29, 1980, in so far as it denied the commission's motion to compel production of documents predating March 22, 1976. We granted the commission's application for direct appellate review.

The facts found by the motion judge are these. On February 21, 1977, the commission voted to investigate the administration of redevelopment programs under...

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