People ex rel. Ward v. Feitner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Thomas L. Feitner and others, as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city of New York, from. • an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Queens County Special. Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens-on the 5th day of November, 1900, confirming the report of a referee and correcting and reducing an assessment upon the real property of the relators for the year 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The relators complain of an assessment on two certain tracts of unimproved real estate fronting on the Atlantic ocean, in the-former village of Eockaway. This property had been assessed before the formation of the Greater New York, in 1897, at a valuation of $22,500. In the assessment roll for 1899 it was assessed at-a valuation of $208,900. The relators protested against this assessment and procured from the commissioners a reduction of $45,000. Deeming the sum of $168,900 as still excessive and unequal/ they sued out a writ of certiorari to review the assessment under section…
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