PARKINSON v. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF MEDFIELD


398 Mass. 112 (1986)

495 N.E.2d 294

ELLEN L. PARKINSON vs. BOARD OF ASSESSORS OF MEDFIELD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Casimir de Rham, Jr. (John A. Perkins with him) for the taxpayer.

Charles Fuller, Jr., Town Counsel, for the defendant.

James R. Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & another, amici curiae.

Gregor I. McGregor, for The Trustees of Reservations & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board), which affirmed the refusal of the board of assessors of Medfield (assessors) to abate the tax on real estate owned by Ellen L. Parkinson (taxpayer). The assessors had declined to recognize as valid a conservation restriction on the taxpayer's property which was the basis of her applications for abatement. We affirmed the decision of the board in Parkinson v. Assessors of...

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