People ex rel. Bronx Gas & Electric Co. v. Feitner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, The Bronx Gas and Electric Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, bearing date the 25th day of May, 1899, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, upon an order made at the New York Special Term, bearing-date May 15,1899, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the relator’s motion for judgment and quashing a writ of certiorari issued to review an assessment for taxation upon real property…
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Appeal by the relator, The Bronx Gas and Electric Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, bearing date the 25th day of May, 1899, and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York, upon an order made at the New York Special Term, bearing-date May 15,1899, and entered in said clerk’s office, denying the relator’s motion for judgment and quashing a writ of certiorari issued to review an assessment for taxation upon real property of the relator, and also from the said order.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Section 906 of the charter of the city of New York* provides that a certiorari to review or correct on the merits any final determination of the board of taxes and assessments shall be allowed by the Supreme Court or any justice thereof on the verified petition of the party aggrieved, but only on the ground, which must be specified in such petition, that the assessment is illegal or erroneous by reason of overvaluation, or, in the case of real estate, that the same is erroneous by reason of inequality, in that the assessment has been made at a higher proportionate valuation…
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