Legal Opinion

Long Dock Co. v. State Board of Assessors

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided June 10, 1916PublishedCited by 16 opinions

On four writs of certiorari to review the reassessment of “second class” railroad property for the year 1911, and the assessment of the same property for the years 1912, 1913 and 1911, respectively.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The assessments for all the years mentioned relate to precisely the same property with the exception of 1914. Generally speaking, the property includes all of the terminal yard and water front at Harsimus in Jersey City as used by the Erie Railroad Company, and other property adjoining the main stem in lower Jersey City, also at the west end of the tunnel and cut, and land used for car storage and similar railroad purposes on and adjoining the "Hackensack meadows.

The valuation fixed by the state board for 1911 was brought before the Supreme…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McMicken v. WebbSupreme Court of the United States · 1837

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Board of Tax ReviewSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1971
  2. D., L. & WR CO. v. City of HobokenNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1951
  3. Stack v. HobokenNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1957
  4. State v. State Board of Tax AppealsSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1946
  5. New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority v. CariddiSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1980

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