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BOSTON EDISON CO. v. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF WATERTOWN

387 Mass. 298 (1982)

439 N.E.2d 763

BOSTON EDISON COMPANY vs. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF WATERTOWN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Moriarty (Jeffrey B. Storer with him) for the plaintiff.

Edward G. Seferian for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs:

Richard L. Brickley, for Bay State Gas Company & another, amici curiae.

Philip H.R. Cahill, for Massachusetts Electric Company & another, amici curiae.

Robert V. Cauchon, for Eastern Edison Company, amicus curiae.

Robert S. Cummings & Duncan S. Payne, for Holyoke Power & Electric Company & another, amici curiae.

Gerald V. May, for Cambridge Electric Light Company & others, amici curiae.

Robert J. McGee, for Colonial Gas Company, amicus curiae.

Verne W. Vance, Jr., for Boston Gas Company, amicus curiae.

Richard J. Kelliher, for Massachusetts Municipal Association, amicus curiae.

Stanley U. Robinson, III, amicus curiae.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

Boston Edison Company (Edison) appeals from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) valuing Edison's taxable personal property in Watertown for the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978. Edison's principal challenge is to the board's determination to value Edison's property almost entirely on the basis of the property's depreciated reproduction cost, with only minimum weight given to the net book cost, or rate base value, of the property. The difference...

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