Legal Opinion

People ex rel. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Woodbury

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 5, 1915PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Cboss-appeals by the relator, The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, and the defendants, Egburt E. Woodbury and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Albany Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the 26th day of August, 1914.

1Opinion of the Court

Smith, P. J.:

These appeals are from an order in certiorari proceedings brought to review certain special franchise tax assessments in the city of Yonkers for the year 1907. Upon the return of the order for the issuance of the writ a referee was appointed to *429take evidence and report to the court with his findings of fact and conclusions of law. Evidence was thereafter taken by the said referee and his report duly filed, by which he determined that all the assessments in question should be set aside and declared void, apparently upon the general ground that the return of the defendants was…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Long Island Railroad v. State Board of Tax CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1912
  2. People Ex Rel. Long Island Railroad v. State Board of Tax CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1913
  3. People ex rel. New York & Rockaway Beach Railway Co. v. State Board of Tax CommissionersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1913
  4. People ex rel. New York & Rockaway Beach Railway Co. v. State Board of Tax CommissionersNew York Court of Appeals · 1913

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Lehigh Valley Railway Co. v. State Tax CommissionAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1923
  2. People ex rel. New York Central Railroad v. GravesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1947

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