People ex rel. Eagle Fire Insurance v. Commissioners of Taxes & Assessments

This is a proceeding brought under chapter 269 of the Laws of 1880 to review the assessment of the personal property of the relator made by the commissioners of taxes and assessments in the year 1889. A writ of certiorari was duly issued to the respondents, who filed their return thereto, and the relators thereupon served notice of trial, and brought the proceeding to a hearing at special term. When the proceeding was reached in its order on the day calendar, the relator’s counsel moved to strike out certain portions of the return, and the counsel to the corporation resisted such motion upon…