Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting statutory construction that would “bring two provisions of our own statutes into unnecessary conflict”
• wherein it was held that assessments paid to the cities of Boston and Worcester for the prevention of fires was not a condition of doing business in Massachusetts but, rather, in two of its political subdivisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).