Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 22, 1908 (Blackstone Manufacturing Co. v. Inhabitants of Blackstone)

Knowlton, C. J.

The petitioner is a manufacturing corporation organized under the laws of the State of Rhode Island more than sixty-five years ago. Previous to August, 1904, its mills were situated in the town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, where it owned more than two hundred and fifty acres of land, which included village lots, so called, to the amount of more than sixty acres, together with a