People ex rel. Littman v. Wells
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, James L. Wells and others, as commissioners of taxes and assessments of the city of Hew York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of September, 1903, denying the defendants’ motion to quash a writ of certiorari .theretofore issued herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The object of this proceeding is the cancellation of an increase in the assessed valuation of four parcels of land owned by the relator, upon the ground that to the extent of such increase the" assessment is illegal and void. The premises were duly appraised for taxation and reported to the board of taxes and assessments by a deputy tax commissioner within the time prescribed by section 889 of the revised Greater New York charter (Laws of 1901, chap. 466), and thereafter the board caused the assessments as thus reported to be entered in the annual record, pursuant to the…
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